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If farmers paid enough to get Americans to do seasonal farm labor their produce would cost twice as much as central/south American produce and they would immedi
by colinmhayes 6y ago
If farmers paid enough to get Americans to do seasonal farm labor their produce would cost twice as much as central/south American produce and they would immediately go out of business as everyone buys cheap imported fruit.
- nitrogen 6y agoA labor-protectionist strategy has to be paired with a goods-protectionist strategy (tariffs or bans on imports).
- freen 6y agoSounds like they don’t have a business, and should shut down.
- rjmunro 6y agoYou can fix this with import duties. If the country you are importing from doesn't have good labor laws, you charge them 100% extra.
- colinmhayes 6y agoPeople get really pissed off when food gets more expensive. Politicians realize that and will therefore never pass legislation that would cause such drastic price increases on food.
- wing-_-nuts 6y agoIf they enforced the laws already on the books, they'd have to pass new laws to fix things. I see that as a net positive. If you selectively enforce against illegal immigrants, well, that's very much a 'rules for thee, not for me' situation isn't it?
- pg_bot 6y agoNow everyone is poorer.
- renox 6y agoThis kind of reasoning can be used to justify slavery..
- colinmhayes 6y agoExcept giving someone a job isn't slavery... it's actually the complete opposite.