Negative Fallout From Increased Wage Laws

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I'm sure not too many folks have much sympathy for businesses that suffer due to new minimum wage laws. I'm currently a resident of New Mexico. Chile farming isn't very big news other places but it's an important industry where I live. Anyway I was hearing some reports on local news stating how the chile farming industry in New Mexico is being hurt by an increase in the minimum wage. The industry is being threatened by foreign competition and the increase in the minimum wage adds to the threat as in the industry could die here. Here's a link to The New Mexico Chile Association! web page:

The New Mexico Chile Association


Challenges our industry faces:


· Cheap foreign industry that is taking our market share and putting companies out of business.

· Our industry lacks available automation because we are not a huge industry and have not attracted attention and money from machinery companies. We need automation to allow us to compete with foreign competition that has very low labor costs and little regulation.

· Burdensome and poorly thought out local and statewide minimum wage laws.

· Immigration policies that make it difficult to staff our companies cost effectively.

· Onerous labor laws and other regulations that increase our costs.

· Proposed grading laws that will cause our costs to increase.

· Additional free trade agreements that will add to the influx of cheap foreign product.

· Over the past decade, the number of acres of chile grown in New Mexico has been reduced by half.

· If our industry does not act aggressively, our industry will be decimated and little of it will remain in five years.

[Smasharoo]

I cry a silent bloody tear of rage for all the poor disenfranchised chile farmers of New Mexico. I imagine the national GDP will collapse if they're forced to increase wages for the first time in a decade. Oh, alas, alas!

[TomCollins]

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I cry a silent bloody tear of rage for all the poor disenfranchised chile farmers of New Mexico. I imagine the national GDP will collapse if they're forced to increase wages for the first time in a decade. Oh, alas, alas!

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At first they came for the Jews...

[Smasharoo]

At first they came for the Jews...

You're right, it's a slippery slope to wild wage inflation left completely unchecked by any market adjustment causing the complete destruction of the economy. Yup. Slippery all right.

[TomCollins]

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At first they came for the Jews...

You're right, it's a slippery slope to wild wage inflation left completely unchecked by any market adjustment causing the complete destruction of the economy. Yup. Slippery all right.

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Ugh, why do I bother responding to trolls.

[bisonbison]

Ugh, why do I bother responding to trolls.

Tom, it'd help if you guys would lay off the holocaust references. They do not help your case.

[HeavilyArmed]

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At first they came for the Jews...

You're right, it's a slippery slope to wild wage inflation left completely unchecked by any market adjustment causing the complete destruction of the economy. Yup. Slippery all right.

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Ugh, why do I bother responding to trolls.

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Ignore Baby.

[bills217]

He did sort of make OP's point for him though.

OP:

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I'm sure not too many folks have much sympathy for businesses that suffer due to new minimum wage laws. I'm currently a resident of New Mexico. Chile farming isn't very big news other places but it's an important industry where I live.

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Skidmasharoo:

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I cry a silent bloody tear of rage for all the poor disenfranchised chile farmers of New Mexico. I imagine the national GDP will collapse if they're forced to increase wages for the first time in a decade. Oh, alas, alas!

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You'll note this is another textbook example of trolling. Maybe Skidmasharoo are actually the OP's gimmick accounts. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I don't really believe in putting people on ignore because who knows he might read a book someday and offer some content (heck even CANIS does sometimes), but this is the last post I'll make responding to him/them until then.

[andyfox]

I note that among the aims of the organization are to:

-Work with state and federal officials to obtain funding to automate key manual processes prevalent in our industry including harvesting, cleaning, de-stemming, and peeling of chile.

-Research and lobby for additional support such as tax breaks or training funds specific to our industry to assist our members in competing with cheap foreign products.

-Lobby to oppose additional free trade agreements and to ensure any agreements will minimize the impact to our industry.

-Direct chile related research at NMSU and other public and private institutions to ensure our needs are being met.


So it's OK for the association to rely on government to give its members funding for automation, tax breaks and training funds as it sees fit, to set up protective tariffs to artificially raise prices, and to do research to make sure its needs are being met. But not to insure a decent wage for the 5,000 full-time or 10,000 part-time workers that contribute to it being a $400,000,000 industry.

[TomCollins]

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I note that among the aims of the organization are to:

-Work with state and federal officials to obtain funding to automate key manual processes prevalent in our industry including harvesting, cleaning, de-stemming, and peeling of chile.

-Research and lobby for additional support such as tax breaks or training funds specific to our industry to assist our members in competing with cheap foreign products.

-Lobby to oppose additional free trade agreements and to ensure any agreements will minimize the impact to our industry.

-Direct chile related research at NMSU and other public and private institutions to ensure our needs are being met.


So it's OK for the association to rely on government to give its members funding for automation, tax breaks and training funds as it sees fit, to set up protective tariffs to artificially raise prices, and to do research to make sure its needs are being met. But not to insure a decent wage for the 5,000 full-time or 10,000 part-time workers that contribute to it being a $400,000,000 industry.

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Government is always great if you benefit from it, and evil if its limiting you (or not giving you enough). Isn't politics great?

Stop these restrictions on me (but give me some money!)!