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Originally Posted by jayeff
Dammit. 35 years in business and I always thought costs mattered 
Okay so the theory you described is correct as it stands, but it is only part of the picture. "The marketplace" does reflect costs and when cost increases affect a significant proportion of an industry, unless margins are high and/or demand weak, that industry will increase its prices. The most obvious recent example is gas. There are companies in every industry which set trends. If they swallow increases, so will most others. If not, prices rise. The same principle applies to price reductions.
Whether prices would rise across every industry in which immigrants are heavily involved, remains to be seen. But don't be in such a rush to declare flat out that there would be no increases at all. |
Cost and profit are two different things. If produce farmers thought they could charge $10 for a head of lettuce, they'd be doing it now
And again, I've yet to see where immigrants are making LESS money. The company is probably saving 7.5% on SS per immigrant but certainly doesn't have to offer ANY employee health insurance. IMO, most immigrants truly are doing the work "Americans" won't do - they aren't necessarily cheaper - but they show up and work.
I was just in Mexico a couple of days ago and had a long talk with a guy who's a resident of Mexico and has a visa to work in the US. He said it's amazing how many illegals come and go - many own homes/property in the US, have US driver's licenses (which until 1/08 gets them back over the border) and more importantly,if it didn't take 8-15 years, they would become US citizens in a heartbeat.
IMO, making citizenship faster is the answer, not forcing a certain group of people into the military.