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thereitis wrote:
Russ wrote:
A.V., Give me 4 hours, letting me set the wage to be paid, and I will find someone to fill the job that you think cannot be filled because Americans won't take the job you have in mind. Remember, I get to set the wage to be paid.
I will fill that job with an American citizen. They will wind up being paid a fair and competitive wage.
I can promise you that, because I, unlike you, understand that this country operates within a supply and demand environment.
Russ,
I unlike you understand that you cannot set the wage. The free market sets the wage. And yes, cheating will influence the free market set wage. The only problem with the mind set I see on wages is that we often think someone mowing lawns should be making $30k a year. In a marxist world, yes. In American, only when Big Macs and movies run $30 due to inflation.
You can't set the wage and call it free market.
I am not suggesting setting wages other than in a competitive way - which is the way the system should work.
If an employer has to pay more to get an employee, or to keep the employee, that IS the way the system is supposed to work. Employers of course, think it's great to have a few million foreigners, who come from countries where $5 a day is an excellent wage. They will live six families to a single dwelling home to get by, but what does the employer care? Not a bit! After all, his bottom line benefits from the foreigner working for less than what a citizen can finance his family with is just fine with them.
I am simply suggesting that dumping millions of foreigners upon OUR wage market skews the market price for labor in a negative way for practically every citizen worker. Of course, practically every employer loves the situation that excess illegal foreign labor causes.
Which is what this whole issue is all about.
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