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Is there not an arguement to be made that increasing the minimum wage encourages the employment of illegal immigrant workers, not subject to minimum wage legislation though?
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Short answer: yes.
Long answer: it also reduces the number of jobs the economy can sustain, period. If $5.00/hr is the value an employee provides to a company, and the government mandates their pay to be $6.00/hr, they lose their job plain and simple. This is even before we consider hiring illegal immigrants at a lower pay.
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Surely a republican government would not want to risk any policies that might encourage greater utilisation of illegal workers?
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Why not? They don't
really care about illegal workers. It's all about inciting a culture of fear among the populace. And what better way to get more support for walling off our country than causing even more (oh noes!) illegal workers in the country?
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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