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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nice demonstration of Cruz not understanding economics. If labor costs < capital costs for a given job, then it doesn’t make sense to replace the workers with machines. And I imagine for the most part that agriculture has already been mechanized when and where it can be.

Is Cruz proposing a giant new subsidy for all these magical new machines?


10 posted on 03/30/2016 8:52:58 PM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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To: Utmost Certainty

Maybe he really is serious about sending those 50 million illegals back home and wants to problem-solve for the affected industries?


13 posted on 03/30/2016 8:57:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: Utmost Certainty
"Nice demonstration of Cruz not understanding economics."

I believe it's exactly the opposite. A century ago most people lived on farms, a third or more of the farm's output went to feeding horses, and the farm barely produced enough output to feed the farmer's family. It's been entirely due to mechanization on farms that US farms now feed all of America, and a lot of the world with just a couple of percent of the population working on them. This is nearly entirely due to mechanization. There's no reason that would change now.

43 posted on 03/31/2016 6:20:11 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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