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To: worst-case scenario

Good. Hopefully it won't be more than 25 cents a pound on chicken parts but then once you calculate what FICA will cost... chickens just might get expensive. :-)


80 posted on 11/29/2005 6:22:36 AM PST by rhombus
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To: rhombus
Good. Hopefully it won't be more than 25 cents a pound on chicken parts but then once you calculate what FICA will cost... chickens just might get expensive.

Do you honestly think that chicken producers are cutting consumers a price break just because they are using cheap labor to produce it? That is ridiculous! Chicken is sold at the profit maximizing price. Suppliers just pocket the ill-gotten money they save by using illegal labor as additional profits. Consumers don't see the savings.

The construction industry is increasingly dominated by illegals and real wages are falling. Has anybody noticed the cost of housing coming down? The developers are just pocketing the additional profits they achieve as a result of cheap illegal labor. They sell the house to the buyer at the highest price they can get and it has nothing to do with the cost of labor to build it. Consumers see absolutely no savings. It follows that they will see no price increases if the illegal labor disappears. The price of the house will be set by supply and demand and the developer will earn a lower profit.

458 posted on 11/29/2005 11:27:44 AM PST by jackbenimble (Import the third world, become the third world)
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