"Due to poor quality of our available labor force we need to import labor and automate! Vote for us!!!"
You haven’t answered my question. You just keep going off on “Republicans” and various & sundry boogymen.
What gives the government (apparently at your behest) the right to force me to pay more for any product?
Because, whether you like it or not, when you look for a job you are selling your labor & skills to the employer. It’s a contractual relationship. More skills, more money.
Consider tech jobs. When I was a kid there weren't any tech jobs... well, there was ONE company - (listed below). They had fewer than a hundred employees. In the fifties and sixties there was talk computers would replace everyone and destroy all our jobs.
The people who thought that were wrong.
Computers created jobs. Robotics will be the same - we're not at the end of invention and innovation - we're at the beginning. Robotics will create more jobs.
If people in the past had your outlook on innovation we'd still be using blacksmiths for our horse's shoes...
The first computer company
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm
The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer. The company was later renamed to EMCC or Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and released a series of mainframe computers under the UNIVAC name.