Guaranteed Income (Part II): A Real End to Illegal Immigration

In my last post, I explained the best way to end unemployment is an Ebay / Paypal style solution to auction off the “Man Weeks” of our unemployed:

1. All registered workers are guaranteed an income of $10,400 per year, at least $6 per hour.  The minimum bid is $1, and the government uses current Unemployment Insurance I monies to add up to $5.
2. Current UI ends after 90 days.  To receive any extra aid of any kind (food stamps, Section 8, energy assistance, etc.) able bodied workers must register in this system. They receive a Debit Card where their pay is deposited every Friday.  They can choose to earn less, but they cannot decline to work and get GI.
3. We are all allowed to bid on any worker’s Man Week, as long as we have first deposited the money to cover the bid in the system; no credit will be extended.  This bid covers employer taxes, workers compensation, everything soup-to-nuts.

Below you will find the pay schedule I’m suggesting, but first I want to talk about a gorgeous side effect of this plan: it ends illegal immigration.  In fact, it actually causes current illegals to deport themselves.

The reason is simple: When farmers can bid $4.00 per hour to have unemployed American citizens pick the grape crop, they will no longer hire illegals.  You get the drift?  Immediately, there will be no jobs open to illegal immigrants.  Since (in this $4 case) the government is adding $3.50 per hour, the US citizen is earning $7.50 ($15,600 per year).

We’ll leverage the extra pay provided by the government (money we spend anyway) to end demand for non-citizen workers.

Notice that we don’t need to staff up the Immigration Department to chase down coyotes; we don’t need to raid companies looking for illegal immigrants; we don’t need to build a wall across Mexico; we don’t need to waste time passing harsh laws.

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