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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (315774)12/15/2006 10:23:43 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (2) of 1574485
 
Enforce the laws on the books by going after employers that hire illegals. No jobs... no illegals. No illegals, no wage pressure from 10-20 million low wage workers.


Sounds like a recipe for higher costs for everything, higher unemployment since labor costs more, and those who have a job at the low end of the pay scale get a bit more. Are you sure wage increases would outweigh the wages permanently eliminated from the job losses which your plan would cause? You may be just shrinking the entire wage pool since your plan would eliminate some jobs.

And how do you implement it? Does everyone have to carry papers all the time? Is it the local police that go into random restaurants asking the dishwasher for his papers?

And if the US middle class does get a small wage increase as a result of your plan, wouldn't the fact that all services and restaurants and food now costs more potentially eliminate the benefit of their wage increase? A wage increase combined with basic service price inflation may be useless.

I'm not convinced it would do any good. And raising the minimum wage sounds like an easier way to achieve about the same thing, other than the fact that the illegals would get to keep their job...
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