[Always Right]

They are depressing the wage rate. That $10 to $20 per hour would be higher.

So what do we need to pay to get fruit picked, tables bused, drywall hung? $30 per hour? That'w what we need is a bunch of people busing tables for $60K per year to meet your idea of fair pricing.

[HankReardon]

No, we need to kick healthy Americans off of welfare. It's not that they won't work for the low wages that Mexicans will work for it's that they don't have to!

[muawiyah]

A "fair price" is really not something the government should be guaranteeing to any producer or merchant. Using language from the good old days, that's "mercantilism", not "capitalism".

Nothing more pitiful in my eyes than a rich guy who whines night and day that he needs the privilege of violating the law so that he can make a profit.

That's the problem ~ this violating of the law ~ and the destruction of the poor ~ if a fair wage is $60 K per year for a waiter, then you might find cafeteria style service back in style eh?

It is no more fair for you to get a business subsidy for breaking the law than it is for me to shop for new furniture and TVs by breaking into your house!