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I'm a school owner and would happily employ a competent non-native speaker over a less-competent native speaker IF my clients would let me. Honestly, I believe it's far from being the most important thing. But it would be commercial suicide - my clients would likely think I am trying to rip them off...

Pardon me, but it's not the Present Simple anyway. "I like tea" is the Present Simple. "I would like a tea" or varients thereof (I might like a tea, I should like a tea) is a construction with a modal verb and the bare infinitive. But yes, you have the meaning sussed. It's most l...