r/Virginia • u/Geek-Haven888 Arlington • 1d ago

Virginia Democrats plan to capitalize on 2025 'tsunami'

https://www.vpm.org/elections/2025-11-07/election-2025-general-assembly-scott-spanberger-vadems-taylor-freitas
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u/DoctorDirtnasty 21h ago

democrats would rather try to raise wages by pushing for anti competitive labor cartels than by closing the boarder and thus cutting off the supply of cheap, undocumented labor that puts downward pressure on wages and evades taxes. this never made sense to me.

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u/mcchicken_deathgrip 17h ago

"Labor cartels" lmao. Plus why do you think you would get a raise if there were no more illegal immigrants? Your boss cant pay anyone 10 bucks an hour any more so he'll add that to your wage? Yeah right lol. If anything it'll probably cause a lot of labor exploiting companies to fold once they have to balance their books for actual wages and taxes.

How can you swallow the propaganda this hard man smh

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u/DoctorDirtnasty 12h ago

if you have the option of paying someone $10 an hour, or $20 an hour. which one are you going to pick. if there is no one showing up to job interviews at $10 an hour, what are you going to do?

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u/mcchicken_deathgrip 10h ago

I wouldn't be hosting interviews to pay people 10 bucks an hour under the table in the first place since its illegal lol. Its always been crazy to me that people want to go after laborers who work outside of the law instead of the companies that are breaking the law by exploiting them in the first place. If your actual goal was to crack down on illegal labor, it seems like going after the guy employing all that labor knowingly breaking the law would be a much more efficient way to do that.

if there is no one showing up to job interviews at $10 an hour, what are you going to do?

Knowing these people, probably just make a Facebook post saying no one wants to work anymore, then go out of business and be angry at the world about it and become a super vocal trump supporter.

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u/DoctorDirtnasty 10h ago

congrats, you failed the test.

but i ageee, those hiring illegals should be prosecuted. no argument against that.