09-05-2017, 05:11 PM
(09-05-2017, 01:11 PM)Benton Wrote: Most of the people I hear concerned (outside of this message board and a few retirees) are small business owners/managers. These are friends and employees they're losing. And there's not a great labor market out there in the lower/lower middle income brackets. The number one complaint I hear through my role with the Chamber of Commerce and through my job is the lack of hirable employees. One of the biggest reasons I hear for going out of business is labor. They can't find enough of it to work consistently or not enough to work cheaply. The market, at least in my area, hasn't done anything to fix that.
Of course, maybe some of that is just Kentucky, where the drug problem is making things pretty rough.
It will hurt some business. Cheap labor is great. This will affect my bottom line as I won't be able to exploit the illegals small businesses that do work for us. But we will manage as I am sure others will as well.
Hiring cheap labor great but then at the same point we can not claim to be In favor of rule of law. The job is business is to find the holes within the laws and exploit them. I am sure business will do so again.
