Breaking the laws real Americans won’t break.
I saw a very similar headline yesterday supposedly from another state in the midwest. Must be the Dem talking point for this weekend.
My job puts me in very close contact with farmers, and my first thought is they always whine about labor costs, but how much of the price of a tomato at the grocery store is labor cost? Fertilizer, transportation, seed stock, planting, livestock, spraying, fuel, equipment leases or purchase payments, they all seem to me to be a much larger portion of a 50 cent tomato than labor.
I deal with a guy nearly every day that owns about 4 different dairies. He pays his employees crap wages, (even the legal American citizens), none of his trucks would pass a DOT inspection (but he has a ‘F’ plate which exempts him), he and his kids all get a new $40,000 truck every other year which is a write-off, and he employs a bunch of illegals.
He’s essentially getting subsidized by the US taxpayer on health costs for his employees (they go to the emergency room), wages (the illegals game the system by not showing they’re married, the ‘wife’ applies for welfare, WIC, foodstamps, etc...as a single mother with anchor baby) Taxes (farm subsidies and property tax exemptions), and since he doesn’t have to pay overtime wages (farm employees are exempt) the income taxes, social security, and medicare taxes paid are reduced.
So, how many employees does it take to produce 100,000 gallons of milk per year? How much would it raise the price of a gallon of milk if the dairy paid for health insurance, overtime, and increased wages for not hiring illegal aliens? How much would the price of a tomato increase if the same things were required? How about a head of lettuce?
It’s employers like you lady who are breaking this country’s back. I refuse to subsidize your collaboration with illegal foreign invaders.