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You are wrong. When the government artificially manipulates the market, it causes increases or decreases in price.

When the government prints money and dumps it into the economy, prices raise artificially. It’s called inflation.

Artificially inflating the population causes a glut of labor and drives down wages. Ad to that mix when the new workers work for cash and the employer doesn’t have to pay taxes, unemployment insurance, etc., it drives wages down because employers who are competing with the criminal employers have to become criminals too or cut wages to a point where the legal worker isn’t costing more than the criminal worker.

When the criminal aliens get amnesty and their employers have to pay taxes, etc., and the newly legal worker can leave for a higher paying job, the criminal employer will start looking for newly arrived illegal aliens to fill the jobs at the lower wages he paid before the amnesty.

Illegal aliens also decrease wages because they cost every family in the country around $1,900 in social services they use over and above all the taxes they pay (Lou Dobbs was talking about this just tonight) The increased taxes legal workers pay to provide services to the criminals effectively reduces their pay. It is money they earn but get no bennifit from.

This plan will also provide a major incentive for more people to become criminals and come here illegally. It will show them that we reward criminals.

Top all of this off with the part of Bush’s plan that will pay Social Security to Mexicans who worked here legally or illegally and the cost becomes even bigger. The Social Security system will be paying out more than it takes in in about 12 years if we don’t pay Social Security to Mexicans. When Bush gets that passed the system will be broke in about 8 years.

At that point, the government will have to raise Social Security taxes to about 35% of gross to pay its obligation. If you don’t think that will impact wages you are not rational.