because apparently they were going to get fined at the end of hte year anyway through some force of magic so they are not getting more money by not being fined

what's stopping you from robbing a bank? is it not the punishment? isn't that the only thing that would make you think twice?

If a company hires an illegal, they will have to run the calculations on the risk. If you increase the punishment, when the risk becomes too big, they stop doing it

in this case, the company is also incentivized to report a compatitor if they hire illegals

because the competition will go bankrupt

see, the risk only becomes too big for small companies, and the large ones lobby for the punishment in our current system.

the big ones pay the punishment in cash

it's not a problem

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so you are fine with large companies bribing the government to remove their competition while they keep using the same practice?

the big companies can't hire illegals

if they do, they pay

but they can afford to pay

not a problem

they pay, the illegals get deported

and their competition goes out of business, leaving them the only game in town.

they won't go out of business if they dont use illegals

allowing them to increase profit margins, making the risk for hiring illegals lower, so they keep doing it and just dodge the government for long enouhg

but the big guy is using illegals

his labor costs are lower

therefore to undercut him, you need to get your labor costs down

mate, illegals are a risk. If you increase the punishment

you increase the risk

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let them pay billions

they will only do it if it's worth it

the higher the risk, the cheaper it becomes to play off the corruption in our system

if it's still worth it, increase the punishment

You turn the punishment into blackmail when it gets that high.

"you could pay out billions to the government... or just pay my audit department a few million under the table"

this is how our system works.

you really are using the typical "too big to fail" arguments

maybe where you are from, big business don't run the place. But in the US, they do.

and making the government even more a tool for corporations doesn't fix that problem.

this isn't a new trend. the 2016 election cycle should have showed you that.

they still aren't above the law, you make it sound like ppl at google can rape people and the courts can ignore the evidence

they often do.

until it becomes a valuable political move to get them jailed

ppl, the patriarchy is real

but it needs to get to court first.

patriarchy? no. Corruption? yes.

Look at the fucking left!