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'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers
(www.politico.com)
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What wages are you offering? Perhaps you are the one who has been spoiled by cheap labor.
So it's fine to require these immigrants to jump through all sorts of hoops and navigate the beauracracy, but for these poor American farmers running businesses it's simply too much to ask.
The cognitive dissonance with these fools is astounding.
The thing is that if you increase wages, food products in the supermarket get slight (but only very slightly more expensive). We're talking: the apple costs 34c instead of 32c. It's very slight increases, because labor in many types of food products make up only a small part of the total cost of the product. Basically people are fear-mongering that food would become unaffordable, but it's only a slight increase, and it would be more than compensated by the better wages, which make the products more affordable.
No. That means that the farmer's costs go up. The price in the supermarket is set by consumer demand, so an increase in cost at any point in the chain (farmer, logistics, retail) reduces the profits of ownership.
This is why minimum wage increase have been consistently proven to NOT have the dire effects that conservatives claim they will.
The dire consequence of decreased profits.