Comment Re:Here here! Well said. (Score 1) 795
But this is just disappointing. That "cheap import worker" has every bit the same right to the job that you do. There's no moral reason to deny it to him.
True. But there is a moral issue with allowing the company, who benefits from local society (infrastructure, security, etc), to receive those benefits without contributing appropriately. We can impose restrictions on a company's behavior in exchange for allowing them to benefit from our collective activity.
The key there is what behaviors we choose to permit or deny in exchange for what we give to that company.
For example, it is common for a locality to provide public roads, police service, emergency fire and medical coverage, education, etc to a company in exchange for that company providing jobs and workforce development in that location. To me, this is an specific abstraction of the general societal contract between employers and the general public. When a company decides to import cheap labor to avoid paying market rate on local labor, that is a violation of the societal contract, and thus is immoral.
Employers get the benefit of being located in the US, without bearing their share of costs. Not good.