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The solution is not to provide assistance to underpaid illegals. Better to penalize the company for hiring and underpaying them.
by Vvector 2y ago
The solution is not to provide assistance to underpaid illegals. Better to penalize the company for hiring and underpaying them.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoOk so having roughly doubled the cost of restaurant meals what's our next move?
- willcipriano 2y agoNot eat out often. Only on special occasions.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoK so having bankrupted the restaurant industry, what's next?
- willcipriano 2y agoThen we don't need so many immigrants.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoApparently we do if having a restaurant industry is desirable. We've already established raising wages to something that might attract less desperate applicants is a non-starter. Now if you were to say pivot the conversation to the H1-B system that fills more desirable jobs...
- willcipriano 2y agoYou aren't entitled to below cost dinners.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoYou trying to make this about me? I'm just the messenger. Restaurant margins don't support increased wages without passthrough to customers. People already bitch about the overhead associated with tipping waitstaff, one can easily extrapolate how they'd react to the changes in restaurant prices associated with labor costs tripling. If that makes you sad take it up with your neighbors.
- Yeul 2y agoIsn't America supposed to be the richest country in the world? You can afford to pay people a decent wage you just don't want to. You could double the price of a beer in NYC or Miami and people would still come.
- c22 2y agoIn fact they seem to have done this each time I've visited...
- forgetfreeman 2y agoRichest by what metric? Household debt is up, personal savings are down, and wages have been stagnant here for decades. I'm sure the roughly 750 billionaires currently living in the country are having a fine time of it though.