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Old 11-11-2024, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 View Post
It seems hypocritical to promote immigrant workers to compete with China when we don't enforce our own minimum wage law. Also, paying employees in cash is illegal. So, we are promoting illegal activity to compete with China.
Undocumented workers are not here competing with China. They overwhelmingly work in agriculture, food services, landscaping, construction. They are not working in manufacturing industries

And it is perfectly legal to pay employees in cash, as long you comply with all the reporting, withholding etc requirements.
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