Hobby Lobby Founder: I Don’t Think Mandatory Federal Minimum Wage Would Be Fair

ROSE: “You pay about a double Federal minimum wage to your employees, correct? 
GREEN: “That's true. Our minimum wage is about $15.70 for our full-time employees.”
EXCERPT:

ROSE: “How would you feel about the government enacting legislation that requited Federal minimum wage to be $15?”
GREEN: “I don’t think that would be fair. I think that would be -- that needs to be up to the very businesses, and I think that —“
ROSE: “If they wanted to pay $5 an hour, that’s okay with you?”
GREEN: “Well, you cannot do that because of the competition. You cannot hire people at $5 an hour so there’s a certain amount of competition out there as well as a lot of young people wouldn't have jobs.”
ROSE: “Was the competition that led you to pay $15 an hour?” 
GREEN: “No, it wasn’t, but we decided to do this on our own, but we certainly couldn’t pay $5.”