[Drew68]

Drew you are an economic idiot if you ACTUALLY think doubling LABOR costs equates to the doubling the retail price of produce. Do you really think that! LOL.

It doesn't?

Wow! Seattle would love to hear this!

[central_va]

H-2b visas are used for agriculture. Take lettuce for example.

This is the study from Washington State University. This is the cost per acre for picking lettuce:

Packing:

Packing labor hour $12.00 x 300 hrs = $3,600.00 Packing by hand

Cartons 24 ct carton $2.80 X 813 = $2,275.00

There are 24 heads per box so 813 boxes times 24 = 19,512 heads/acre. The labor per acre is $3,600 so the PER HEAD cost of labor is a whopping $0.19 or 19 cents.

So DOUBLING the labor cost to $24.00/hr makes the per head cost go up 19 cents. When you pay a buck per head it would now cost $1.19. THIS IS NOT DOUBLING THE COST. It is a 19% ONE-TIME increase.

My point is you would have to Double labor rates to attarct Americans.