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Big Business wants immigration reform

Is Big Business Trying To Cheat The Free Market System?



It is no secret that Big Business is lobbying for Immigration Reform in Washington D.C. Signs are that House Speaker John Boehner and others in the Republican party are ready to give Big Business what it wants. Both have their suspected reasons, The Republican Establishment sees an opportunity to gain inroads to the Hispanic vote. Big Business on the other hand is looking at the bottom line and spies an opportunity for a cheaper labor force. It is for this I believe they are cheating the free market system.
As a laymen not often confused with being Thomas Sowell, I think I have a general understanding of a free market's basic function. The free market system, as I understand it, works by government staying out of the way of big business, letting supply and demand dictate the cost of products and the wages paid to create those products. The theory is that wages will naturally flow upward and downward with the same principle that sets the products price. If a job’s wage is not enough to attract a worker willing to do it, the natural tendency is for the wage paid for that job to increase to attract a worker who will do it. The same principle stands for the opposite. If a job’s wage is sufficient enough to attract many workers who wish to have it, the wage paid can be lowered because someone will be willing to receive less to get the job. This is how it would work in a stable workforce in a free market. I am willing to wager that you are already seeing the problem. Big Business wants to cheat the system by flooding the workforce with more workers. Not only that, but workers who will work for a lower wage on both ends of the spectrum. Immigrants allow Big Business to not raise the wage paid for a job to attract a worker because it just imported someone who will do the job at the lower wage instead of raising it to its true free market value. On the opposite end the of the spectrum, they upset the natural tendency of a job’s wage to lower at slow rate as demand increases by flooding that area as well with workers who will dilute the workforce and accept the wage paid at a much lower rate than it naturally would had the workforce been stable.

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I propose this is why Big Business wants immigration reform. It allows them to cheat the free market system by undercutting the current workforce as I explained above. As a conservative, I am all for free markets and businesses making a profit. I also understand that immigration is an issue that needs to be addressed . But, what I am against is businesses wanting to play by the rules of the free market system only when it benefits them and not the workforce who supplies the labor. There are no jobs Americans won’t do. There are jobs that Americans wouldn’t do at the wages offered. The free market system would have seen those wage rates increase in a normal economy; but not now if Big Business is to get its way. Big Business with the aid of congress is looking to be allowed to avoid regular free market forces up and down the scale of the workforce and benefit without having to do its share to keep that free market healthy and growing for all those involved. Guess who loses? The middle class. Again.


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