Who Grew Your Tree? [libertarian Reason Magazine promotes open borders again]

Reason Magazine ^ | 12/22/05 | Nick Gillespie and Jesse James DeConto

[tertiary01]

He just insulted lots of US citizen lumberjacks.

Watch Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel. I think you will notice that most of those jobs are not filled by citizens from our "friendly neighbor to the South"

[DuncanWaring]

I doubt they would be selling many Christmas trees then so it wouldn't matter.

Of course they wouldn't.

But somewhere between $6 per hour and $1000 per hour is a price that would attract an adequate number of legal workers, at a price that probably wouldn't add more than a dollar or two to the price of a tree.

[mlc9852]

Would you cut trees for $6 an hour? How much would you be willing to do it for?