Posted on 05/24/2019 5:50:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Following the freeze on trade talks last Friday, China’s apparently moved into full-out attack mode. After slapping new tariffs on thousands of U.S.-made products (mostly meat and vegetables), the Chinese warned President Trump, “if you want to fight, we’ll fight you to the end.”
Over these next few weeks of battle between both governments’ communications departments, will China finally pull out a major hole card it has against the U.S. on the unfair trade issue? That is, will it raise the issue of corporate labor subsidies created by America’s mass immigration system?
By pursuing a system of mass unskilled migration (unparalleled in the world), the U.S. artificially increases its supply of cheap labor. Such labor-surplus conditions work to give many U.S. companies (including U.S. exporters) a big edge on both labor costs and union obligations, in turn providing them with their own unfair advantage over foreign competitors. In the looming public-relations fight over unfair trade, China can and should raise this issue.
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We agree to STOP illegal immigration because it imposes SLAVE WAGES on Legal Immigrants and minorities.
I don't care if the price of tomato's doubles!
I have several times been at my local Lowes and been the only English speaker. On the one hand, these guys are contributing to the economy. On the other hand, are they paying taxes and/or also on welfare? This is in Tallahassee. At Gold’s in Tampa I often go for an hour and don’t hear any English. If I had moved permanently to another country I would learn and speak the language. In Tampa it is difficult to get work if you don’t speak Spanish.
ME NEITHER, EXCEPT IT WONT
That’s a familiar falsehood perpetrated, that prices will rise exorbitantly
The cost of the labor makes up on;y a small portion of the ultimate retail price.
Not to mention agriculture is becoming increasingly mechanized.
It’s the old “we need slaves to pick the cotton” argument.
No, we don’t.
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