Hey Neil, you rocket scientist:
As a libertarian you should know perfectly well that just the taxes paid, never mind the social security contributions, the medicare contributions, and the complex and seemingly infinite workplace regulations price an American worker out of the market even if he was willing to work for nothing.
That's right. Any one of us could accept a $0.00 per hour wage and after government interference in the free market it would still be cheaper to employ a foreigner!
What do I expect government to do? If we're going to be thrown to the lowest common denominator of global wages, at least help us help ourselves by making it even theoretically possible to compete.
But what happens instead? A multi-trillion dollar socialist prescription drug givaway, guaranteed to raise taxes and throw more fuel to the fire.