That's the whole thing. They're not "taking" any jobs. No "illegal" anywhere ever put a gun to an employer's head and said, "Give me that job, or else."

We gave them those jobs, with our stupid economic policies. And we shipped millions of jobs overseas. And still more jobs have simply been priced or regulated out of existence.

If you're asking me to defend big business, I'm not going to. Businesses actually encouraged the government to intervene in the market, by lobbying for special favors and protections, just as labor did. And they still are. Crony capitalism is alive and well.

Did some industries take advantage of workers? Of course. But it's interesting to note that the main impetus behind the minimum wage was to stop black workers from taking jobs from whites. When employers had to pay blacks the same wage they paid whites, the reasoning went, they would simply hire the whites. When you realize that Democrats were behind the minimum wage, that's not all that surprising.

Onward and upward,
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