Even that is debateable. However, no amount of taxes they start paying now is going to recoup the costs to the government for the SS and Medicare that they will be sucking from the system in 20 years. That’s right, they would immediately qualify for benefits (per what I heard discussed last night).
>Besides, if they aren’t going to pick the strawberries you >eat, who will? You wanna pay $10/lb for strawberries when >farmers hire unionized ex-UAW to pick the fields??????
This is a tired argument. Say strawberries cost $2/lb now and we are paying the (illegal) workers $7/hr to pick them and say that wages are the highest portion of the cost of those strawberries. If you doubled the wage to $14 I bet you’d find quite a few people who were willing to take that job at it’s significant premium above minimum wage, even if it was for short term seasonal work. Your $2/lb strawberries are now $4/lb (a 2x increase, not a 5x increase).
