You’re half right. Tariffs are likely to lower wages actually. But deporting illegal immigrants would probably raise the average wages of the people working in the fields that had those displaced jobs, either through supply and demand (few employees so there’s more money to go around), or by citizens replacing non-citizens and getting paid full wages as a result.
All of that is in the realm of “hopefully” and none of it is in the realm of “will happen because a law says it must.”
If citizenry is the magic spell that makes employees pay people more money, why not make all the undocumented citizens with jobs citizens?
Creating a sudden and violent work shortage across a large swath of industries sounds like blowing a hole in the country’s foot when the requested results is just a few dollars higher wages. Why not make those industries pay higher wages by law? You could even mandate that those industries verify citizenship before hiring new people if you really wanted to, and provide a path to citizenship for the people who are already here and proving they can do a job and pay taxes.
Paying more wages is going to raise prices in either case, why choose to leave positive outcomes to chance when lawmakers can literally mandate the positive outcomes.
why hope when you can vote for people who will pass laws to make the wages go up?
Most people did.
most people didn’t vote.
True, I should correct my statement: more people who voted did than didn’t.
Did they though? Will we get laws to raise wages?
Yeah.
Notably there’s these promises from Trump:
Neither of those things are laws that raise wages.
The first one will reduce supply of all sorts of things, which will raise prices. And it’s back to hope again that the suppliers raise wages.
The second one is a tool to raise prices, with no direct way of raising wages so that’s kinda the opposite actually.
Any Republicans out there putting forth laws that directly raise wages?
You’re half right. Tariffs are likely to lower wages actually. But deporting illegal immigrants would probably raise the average wages of the people working in the fields that had those displaced jobs, either through supply and demand (few employees so there’s more money to go around), or by citizens replacing non-citizens and getting paid full wages as a result.
All of that is in the realm of “hopefully” and none of it is in the realm of “will happen because a law says it must.”
If citizenry is the magic spell that makes employees pay people more money, why not make all the undocumented citizens with jobs citizens?
Creating a sudden and violent work shortage across a large swath of industries sounds like blowing a hole in the country’s foot when the requested results is just a few dollars higher wages. Why not make those industries pay higher wages by law? You could even mandate that those industries verify citizenship before hiring new people if you really wanted to, and provide a path to citizenship for the people who are already here and proving they can do a job and pay taxes.
Paying more wages is going to raise prices in either case, why choose to leave positive outcomes to chance when lawmakers can literally mandate the positive outcomes.
Yeah probably
Ah, so you’re back to hope, got it.
Oh my gosh y’all are so ridiculous 😂😂