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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (254645)	7/1/2014 4:10:42 PM
From: stsimon	Read Replies (4) of 541906

So lets look at legal immigration. In my home State the government will not raise salaries for IT workers to compeitive levels while drastically reducing benefits. Salaried workers cannot be hired. Consequently, a large number of contract folks on H1 visas are hired, mostly from India. These contract workers send a good chunk of their pay back to the home country. In addition, the contract labor is more expensive than salaried State workers would be even at competitive salaries and benefits. A second problem, and a large one going forward, is the use of robots, (software and hardware), to replace human workers. There are no SS taxes paid by the employers for robots, so over time the number of workers will continue to shrink even if immigration continues. The Luddites were correct, they were just early on their timing. IMHO.

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