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To: NormsRevenge

I keep hearing the argument that the criminal immigrants (criminal = illegal ?) do the jobs nobody else wants. The truth is that employers need jobs done but do not want to pay the government mandated wage to a bunch of numbskull kids that happen to be American citizens. That's why employers hire crimmigrants.

The answer is to abolish the minimum wage. Then it won't be worthwhile for crimmigrants to make the trip.

Anyone who knows anything about economics can tell you that if government establishes a price cap on a good or service, demand will increase while supply will decrease. Opposite of that, a price floor will cause demand to decrease, supply to increase. Minimum wage is a price floor. Lots of people are looking for jobs (high supply of American workers), but few jobs are available (low demand for Americans.)


114 posted on 04/06/2006 9:23:00 AM PDT by Bobby J III (Reduce Crimmigrants by Abolishing Minimum Wage)
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To: Bobby J III

Please if someone does not want to pay some 5.15 an hour, they should not be employing people in the first place.


115 posted on 04/06/2006 9:35:27 AM PDT by chris1 (I)
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