His talk of worker shortages undermines Trump's generally strong immigration stances

The problem being that even businesses have been saying they can't fill a lot of positions

Of course they say that - it's their excuse for undercutting American wages with foreign serfs.

You don't believe federal interference and taxation contributes to companies moving business out of the country?

Not sure what that has to do with businesses saying they can't fill a lot of positions. (But for the record, I'm against federal interference and taxation.)

Or, that the big push towards putting as many people as possible on the "government teat" has caused a huge drop in willingness to work or work ethics in those that will work?

I'm sure the availability of the government teat has artificially raised the price of good labor - but that doesn't imply that businesses can't fill a lot of positions.

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