[ianai]

The need for labor screams subsidy. This is an area where a subsidy could increase labor pool and decrease imports/deficits.

[lotsofpulp]

I think it screams the need for price increase. If not enough people want to purchase coffee at the price to support local labor, then either sufficient demand does not exist or a new method of performing the laborious task needs to be invented.

The reason labor is cheaper in other countries is because those people have no other options, and I see no reason for taxpayers to subsidize a luxury good.

[ianai]

I don't see farmhand labor as a luxury good.

[pyrale]

Why exactly should a luxury good be subsidized ?

If the importance of providing people with a way of earning money is so important, why not just cut the middle-man and provide life income ?

[chiph]

Or simplify the H2-A (temporary agricultural worker) visa process.

[ianai]

No, I think society needs to find a way to fill jobs like that locally.

[cjalmeida]

Okay, I completely​ missed. Explain me again why should the average American taxpayer subsidize the habits of a snob coffee​ drinkers?

[ianai]

I'm not arguing for a coffee labor subsidy. I'm arguing for a farm labor subsidy. Or ultimately UBI.