Fo Shizzle
Pragmatic Classical Liberal
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RE: Stephen Colbert gets teens and 20 somethings to care about Congress
(09-26-2010 12:08 PM)Paul M Wrote: (09-26-2010 09:24 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: 2. The cost of those vegetables would skyrocket without this labor and lead to reducing the demand for them. Loss of demand = Loss of jobs. In effect by raising the wages to $15 an hour...you do more harm than good.
Not true. No illegal labor and higher wages would have a minor effect on retail prices.
http://www.cis.org/ProducePrices-Without...armworkers
Meat packing raids and new legal hires and higher wages proved the same for retail prices of meat.
http://www.cis.org/2006SwiftRaids
Veggies and Meat. Meat packers make more than farm workers...Legal or illegal. Drop 15$ per hour into field help and see what happens.
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