Shouldn't the "Free Market" resolve the whole immigration issue?

[Merrick]

aren't republicans supposed to be against regulating things relating to the economy, our jobs, etc.? Shouldn't they trust in the free market to sort out the issue of immigration on its own? doesn't standing in the way of an employer hiring a laborer for a mutually agreeable price constitute regulation? Is it not tragically ironic to see people's racist tendencies conquer even their seemingly most unshakeable love for unbridled capitalism?

what, no more faith in the "invisible hand"?

just wondering

[xray s]

1. The "free market" is a hypothetical concept and doesn't actually exist

Power is the only force in economics. If you ain't got it, you ain't got squat. Concentrate too much power in too few hands, and we are all fucked.

[Vincardog]

2. Which is why Capitalism must be REGULATED in order not to destroy us

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. I said this over five years ago:

Government regulation is a natural evolutionary outcome of free market. Once you realize that free market can lead to anarchy and anarchy can lead to human misery, and human misery leads to the destruction of civilization, there is no other decision that makes sense.

[Vincardog]

6. You were Right then and are correct now.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. If I could only rub it in Lou Dobbs face.

[tritsofme]

3. Your typifying the split in the GOP

Between big business and nativists.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Those wimp Libertarians.

First, I don't agree with open borders, but I have to admit I have had some juicy pleasure in watching the biggest anti-open border proponent being Lou Dobbs. I still very much remember his pro-Libertarian, anti-regulation views of free market, before he was against it.

Sort of like those who must claim they knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.