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Old 11-10-2024, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Ptmcbriz View Post
Oh it’s not just the tariffs that will raise prices, wait until there are no migrant workers to pick all the fresh fruit and vegetables in the fields. Who will pick them? Americans won’t do the job. Wait for your hand picked tomato costs $10 each, IF you can even get any because they have rotted in the fields unpicked.
Isn't it illegal to pay migrants less than the minimum wage, to not withhold the FICA taxes, or to not provide other mandatory employee benefits? It seems to me that the legal way to do it is to import the tomatoes.

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