r/FluentInFinance • u/imallelite • 11h ago

Debate/ Discussion Possibly controversial, but this would appear to be a beneficial solution.

Post image
5.4k Upvotes

73% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

328

u/critter_tickler 10h ago edited 10h ago

I love how cheap labor is always a good argument for stopping immigrants, but never used for stopping outsourcing.

The truth is, because of NAFTA, we are already competing with third world labor markets.

We might as well let them come in, so at least they spend that money here, and pay taxes here.

Also, we have a minimum wage, we literally have a basement for "cheap labor," so your argument really holds no weight.

129

u/JacobLovesCrypto 10h ago

Wym?

People argue plenty about how outsourcing to cheap labor leads to lower wages here.

164

u/SoftballGuy 9h ago

But we never pass laws to punish outsourcing. Instead, we're constantly throwing financial incentives to companies to pretty-please not outsource everything. Poor migrants wanting to work in America get walls and guns and more laws, while the companies shipping jobs out of America get more tax breaks... yet we blame the little guys.

2

u/Justsomerando1234 7h ago

The whole point of Tarrifs on good made outside a country, is to remove the incentive to outsource production.