Only if they paid $9.50 an hour with medical and dental benefits!
"Only if they paid $9.50 an hour with medical and dental benefits!"
and that is so wrong? what job do you do for $4 an hour?
Only if they paid $9.50 an hour with medical and dental benefits!
And you have a problem with that???
For labor costs to force lettuce to $5 per head, farmers would have to pay field workers $280 an hour. At that rate, it would be the kind of work "every American would want to do." The problem with illegal immigration is not that labor costs too much; it is that growers compete in a commodity market. If one grower can outdo another by using illegal labor, then his profits will increase. Inevitably, all growers must do the same thing to survive. As recent studies show, illegal immigration is driving down the wages of millions of Americans, while at the same time increasing their taxes
A little something for the economically illiterate.
"Only if they paid $9.50 an hour with medical and dental benefits!"
Well.. then that's how much it costs to get those jobs done. Simple as that. That's the free market at work.
Only if they paid $9.50 an hour with medical and dental benefits!
Not true, McDonalds pays about $6 (have no idea about benefits). In my area we have no significant illegal population, it's homemakers getting a few extra bucks and kids. You do NOT have to have illegals to make it work.
The illegals get paid under the table. That $7 hour paid to a Guatemalean day-laborer is untaxed. Legit citizens have problems taking that kind of pay -- they fear the wrath of the IRS, at the least.
If they took the job and paid tax on they'd be exposing their employeer to scrutiny! A double risk. The employeer doesn't want you working for him if you are going to report the income. He might even get a tad upset about it.
Say an employeer keeps both types -- some do. Disguises the books a bit. But after taxes Honest Joe American gets $5.50 an hour, and and after no taxes illegal Juan Guatelamalen gets $7. No so happy is Honest Joe. And some Juans laugh at him for making so pequeno.
And you deny the honest free-market, instead celebrating the thief's. You remind when I worked on the rental truck fleet of an Italian Bakery. A number of the drivers would come around offering to sell (1) dozens of pounds of meat (2) new stereo equipemnt in boxes (3) new furniture sets, right off the truck. The fruit of hijacks.
I never bought any, and told them not to keep offering the hot stuff to me.
Most, by far, Amercians do not want to work illegally.
Perhaps if you take away all that welfare and much of the disability cr@p and these folks get hungry enough those jobs may not look so bad.
It's a huge liberal myth that illegals work for $.12/hour. Just for the sake of research, stop by Home Depot or any place where they congregate and troll for Johns....erm...I mean employers, and ask how much to do a little work. Most will say $10/hr. They ain't cheap.