I think the legality issue is an excuse. Yeah, they're not paying taxes on their $1-2,000 a year wages (unless you believe McCain that they make $50/hr), but no one pays taxes at that level. That's so far below the poverty line they'd get just about everything refunded everything, like I do.
That's why I think it's an excuse. The real problem seems to be in my view that a lot of people aren't willing to truly compete in a free market. They want the advantages unions got them but they don't want organized labor. They want a deregulated free market but they keep tacking on all these rules (you have to be here LEGALLY to compete!) to stack the game in their favor.
Really, it's the constant inconsistency that gets me. It shows a real lack of perspective into one's own motives when people can doublethink themselves into a corner like this, all so that they don't have to compete equally with ethnic/cultural "inferiors."
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Date: 2008-08-27 09:15 pm (UTC)From:That's why I think it's an excuse. The real problem seems to be in my view that a lot of people aren't willing to truly compete in a free market. They want the advantages unions got them but they don't want organized labor. They want a deregulated free market but they keep tacking on all these rules (you have to be here LEGALLY to compete!) to stack the game in their favor.
Really, it's the constant inconsistency that gets me. It shows a real lack of perspective into one's own motives when people can doublethink themselves into a corner like this, all so that they don't have to compete equally with ethnic/cultural "inferiors."