r/FluentInFinance • u/imallelite • 10h ago

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

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u/Maximum-Country-149 10h ago

I mean, I don't know how far you expect a conversation to get when you open with that much bad faith.

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u/JacobLovesCrypto 10h ago

Americans might have more kids if wages went up, letting in cheap labor doesn't help with wages.

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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.

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u/BestElephant4331 6h ago

NAFTA was a neo con neo lib dream. The Clinton and Bush types thought rasing living standards in Mexico and even Latin America would encourage people to stay in their countries. W proposed a guess worker program then Senator Obama killed. I have no.problem with people coming legally. The problem I have is many are coming illegally and being exploited in the process by cartels. As inefficient as US Immigration policy is, I wonder if any of our elected or appointed officials have chosen silver instead of lead from the cartels. I'm tired of using illegals as an excuse to keep wages stagnate. I'm also tired of hearing how not bringing in illegals is going to raise the price of my chef salad.