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To: Road Walker who wrote (315786)	12/15/2006 12:06:36 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585578

Idiotic. Unless the cost of something is 100% labor then the price of that item is not going up dollar for dollar with a cost of labor increase. It's not idiotic. Prices will probably go up more than than dollar for dollar with the anticipated wage increase. If an employer had salary expense of $5,000 per month before and he has $6000 per month now, he's going to raise prices to generate an extra $1,000 per month, or hire less people, and probably both. Employers where illegals work probably don't have fat margins (food, hotels, service industry), and labor is probably their largest cost. They are going to increase prices to match their higher payroll expense, and their new expense will be much more than just the salary increase. You think you can rip 15 million illegal workers out of the US economy and replace them with 15 million Americans without increasing the employer's costs more than just the wage increase? How about health care costs, recruiting, training, etc.? I don't think you've really thought your plan through. re: Do you know anyone that actually wants a job held by an illegal, or is this all theoretical discussion? Lots of people do... at the right wages. At the right wages? What's that mean? What salary increase do you think is required on average to get an American to take one of these jobs held by illegals? More than 10%?! Sounds like you're effectively destroying loads of jobs and downsizing full segments of the economy so the few remaining hairstylists can double their pay. Do you know people that will pick fruit for $25 per hour when an illegal does it for (I have no idea) $10? Yet you don't think the cost of fruit is going up by $15 per hour divided by pieces per hour (or something like that)? It's going to go up more than $15 per hour - who's paying to locate, train, and keep satisified your US workers who wouldn't do the job for current salary levels? Nope, your plan does more harm than good. I still don't see who enforces it, or why you prefer it to just raising the min wage. You've got my vote on taxing cars that get less than 15MPG, but this idea is going to cause way more harm than even Bush's upcoming third term.