With no mexicans I would not pay much more for food than I pay now
And other costs such as taxes to support lazy Biden voters on welfare would go down since they would be working instead of loafing
Actually. You would have to pay much more. Everyone would. An increase in a single step of the production process would result in an increase in every step. That is how inflation works. Let me explain.
The pickers demand more money, the farmer has to have the product to sell, he has loans to pay. So he agrees. When he turns to the broker he tells the broker he must have more money. The broker finds all the producers have to have more money, and the price goes up. This is initially a small increase at the store. Then the truck drivers who carry the produce see their paychecks aren’t going as far, they demand more money, or go to companies who are willing to pay more, so that the companies they currently work for now pays more, and thus charges more. This is another increase at the market. The dispatchers see their paychecks aren’t going as far, and demand more money, and the inflation cycle continues.
Everyone involved wants more money within a year at the most. And those who are skilled labor, are able to take their skills to another employer to get more money, so employers have to pony up more cash to get the workers they need.
All of this is passed on to the final consumer. The person at the market who is looking at Oranges and complaining how expensive they are. Or standing in front of the meat counter outraged that a lousy tube of cheap ground meat is way more expensive than it was.
Add to that the capitalist system and the profit of charging what the market will bear. And you have the ingredients of inflation.
Everyone ends up making more, and everyone needs to make more just to stay about where they are before it begins.
Now of course when faced with the reality of the economic situation, like all Extremists on the Right you immediately begin throwing whataboutisms, like Welfare. In your fantasy complaint you imagine that the lazy folks will just leave the cities and head to the towns to work as migrant farm hands.
I would say you can’t be that stupid, but of course, you are.
In the 1970’s, my Godparents were involved in Education. I’ll call them Mike and Roberta. Mike worked for the Michigan State Department of Education. At that time, he had teachers who followed the Migrant laborers from farm to farm to insure the children got school. Roberta worked for a local school district as a teacher.
Because as usual, you don’t consider the logistics of anything you want. Let’s say all those welfare folks leave Chicago, and head to Florida to pick oranges. The orange season doesn’t last forever. And they’ll move on. So will Florida suddenly hire a bunch of teachers to meet their requirements to teach the young as they must by law? Or will Florida bitch and moan about all those Northerners coming down and bringing their families and stretching social services to the breaking point. I can see you posting some stupid comment about this proving that Chicago Schools are awful.
One thing I wish you all on the Right would learn. There is never a simple fix. It’s never one thing. The world is a tapestry, and if you pull out one thread you don’t like, you cause additional strain and stress on other threads. But for the RW it’s simple Change everything we don’t like, and we’ll still be miserable and hate filled loons.
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