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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (5543)	12/15/2006 6:31:07 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

I agree that most of the lost of jobs will not come from "export", but some low paying jobs are "exportable", even in a direct sense, and a larger number of those jobs effect costs for companies that hire people with "exportable jobs". If a low end manufacturer pays for some service and its service has to charge more because it has to increase the wages for its employees than it will have higher costs. Or if its employees demand higher wages because their cost for services and retail goods increases then the companies costs also go up. In higher wage areas a $7.50 minimum wage would probably have little effect either in terms of putting people out of jobs, or in terms of increasing people's pay. In the lowest wages areas of the country it probably would put a fair number of low end workers out of a job. It might have an effect on illegal immigration but the effect could be small or it could even cause an increase (not all illegal aliens make minimum wage, if the employer's already illegally hiring them he might not stop at violating other laws)