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fasttense

(17,301 posts)
3. There is a solution but no political will to implement it.
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 08:25 AM
Apr 2012

Raise every country's minimum wage to above $10 an hour and enforce it. Corporations and businesses who use illegal immigrants should be hugely fined. Put huge tariffs on all imports and enforce them.

Then some of the enormous profits corporations are making will go to the people who are actually doing the work. Then those people will be able to buy the crap they make. Corporations wont be able to pay pennies for producing something in another country then sell it for hundreds of dollars in another country if tariffs are added to equal the cost of producing the item in house.

But can you imagine any country doing this? Most government are bought and sold by corporations, and they will never go against their paymasters.

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