Yes. A quick google of kamala harris h1-b will do that. That's fewer high quality jobs for American tech workers. Just like opening development hubs in India and China and doing knowledge transfer, they're selling out American college grads.

They're also reinstating allowing spouse employment visas. So for every H1-B approved, there are 2 American jobs being competed for in America, driving down worker wages. Great for company owners. Not great for American workers. And for those who are sobbing for the big tech, having seen the profits they generate, they can afford to pay a little more for Americans

https://www.thenewsminute.com/...

"Kamala Harris had said that she was in favour of lifting the per-country ceiling on employment-based green cards available for immigrant workers (H1-B visas). Asserting that around 95% of those who are in line for green cards are from China, India, the Philippines and Vietnam, her campaign had said, “Kamala believes we must do more to eliminate discriminatory backlogs and protect immigrant workers so they can stay in our country and continue to contribute to the economy.” Her campaign added that as president, she will clear the backlogs in the family visa category as part of her plan for a fair immigration system."

https://www.business-standard....

"Biden admin likely to provide US citizenship to over 500,000 Indians"

I'm not a single-issue voter. I disagree with Republicans on most things and would not want 200 more Republican judges. But the abuse of the H1-B program by big tech affects our kids. Instead of hiring and training Americans, they hire and train Indian and Chinese workers who will then spread their knowledge to other Indian and Chinese workers competing against American kids.

The US had a $576B trade deficit with China in 2019. They import the IP, copy it, then export it to other markets competing with the supposed US first-mover advantage. We give it freely to get access to their markets.

I get the necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention argument. But they do that already. Maybe the protectionism speeds that development up a bit, but China seems to be perfectly capable of importing US IP while simultaneously developing their own. Also look at India's development in IT. They have billion dollar outsourcing shops while our own get pinched or disappear.

These open markets arguments seem logical, but even the architects of neoliberalism have admitted the trade policies have done more harm than good to American workers.

" Mainstream economists having increasingly accepted the evidence that competition with China has led to a net loss of jobs at home, a cost that must be weighed in the balance against cheap televisions and smartphones. Tom Perriello, another progressive who served in the Obama administration, said in an interview that if you expressed doubts about the free market model among Obama economic officials, as he did, “you were seen as having horns growing out of your head.” Now, he added, if you repeated some of the old chestnuts, “People would say, ‘Are you cryogenically frozen?’”"

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020...

Your number means you're pretty old :)

I guess I'll be surprised if Biden sticks with the hard stance on China. It's a big market and ever since Clinton, corporate greed has taken over the Democratic party.

"President Clinton Thursday reversed course on China and renewed its trade privileges despite what he said was Beijing's lack of significant progress on human rights.

Echoing the case made by George Bush when he was president, Clinton said he was convinced the Chinese would take more steps to improve human rights if the issue were separated from the threat of trade sanctions.

"This decision offers us the best opportunity to lay the basis for long-term sustainable progress on human rights and for the advancement of our other interests with China," he said at a news conference announcing his decision to extend China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status."

Yeah. Democrats have no spine. Do you think they would have cracked down on Huawei and arrested the CEO's daughter for a "victimless crime" like theft of trade secrets? Obama (and Bush and Clinton) let China steal all the IP they needed to become an economic powerhouse. ("On February 13, 2020 Meng was personally indicted by the DOJ on charges of trade secrets theft which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment per 18 U.S.C. 1832.")

Trump's a racist dumpster fire, but he did draw a hard line on IP theft and espionage, at least on the brown people. Putin and other autocrats get a pass.

H1-B limits will be removed or raised. There will be no more enforcement of abuse. American tech wages will remain stagnant.

Look, Kamala Harris, who is an Indian American from California will become VP. Those are her peeps and she'll protect them. That means there will be much more abuse of the H1-B program and more Americans will be replaced with cheap Indian labor. And if you think I'm unfairly picking on Indians, Indians get 74.5% of H1-Bs, followed by Chinese 11.8%, then Canadians 1.0%. So apparently, 74.5% of global geniuses/tech craftsmen are Indian and 11.8% are Chinese. What are the odds that that's true?

It's a great win for big tech. I voted for Biden but this is an area of policy I agree with Trump on.

If you don't like it, write your reps now.

Yes, but economics says there will be significantly fewer of them, which is the point

To be clear, I'm still voting for Biden, because Trump is a racist dumpster fire. But I still think the H1-B program is abused by tech companies, as you can tell by the unbalanced source country numbers.

Every time H1-B's come up, people start bitching and moaning how the program is abused and should be changed or scrapped. Why don't you CC your reps tomorrow and let them know how you feel about it. Deepfake some letters.

Look, if Biden wins, Kamala Harris, who is an Indian American from California will become VP. That means there will be much more abuse of the H1-B program and more Americans will be replaced with cheap Indian labor. And if you think I'm unfairly picking on Indians, Indians get 74.5% of H1-Bs, followed by Chinese 11.8%, then Canadians 1.0%. So apparently, 74.5% of global geniuses/tech craftsmen are Indian and 11.8% are Chinese. What are the odds that that's true?

So instead of JUST complaining in a tiny corner of the Internet, write your Reps and let them know your reasoning and how passionate you are about it

Biden absolutely will increase the H1-B. Kamala Harris is Indian from California. All restrictions will go out the door. I'm still voting for Biden but I'm realistic about what that means for American tech workers: Americans will all be fired for cheap H1-B labor

It was peer reviewed, but only on presentation level because of the desire to fast-track COVID-19 related research.

You can see the review correspondence on the journal website.

https://elifesciences.org/arti...

That is interesting and amazing

I've thought a little about this and I think a big benefit of the government NOT doing this is they want you to actually declare income that they DON'T know about. If they told you what they knew about but missed some income then you just go "check, you got it, haha".

Also, sending out all this information is a bit of a security nightmare (lost mail, moved, etc)

I agree, no business has the right to survive. It's a free market argument (that is, free markets should decide which businesses survive) that few large businesses espouse because they are powerful enough to create carve-outs in the code and capture control of regulators. It's a hypocrisy that many people can't see.

Other countries might have simpler systems perhaps, but not necessarily better.

Those deductions, refunds, etc are to incentivize and dis-incentivize various behaviors or make up for certain situations. A simple example is a tax credit for installing solar panels. Obviously this is to incentivize installing solar panels. Should every person who installs solar panels (or one of thousands of other deductions/credits/etc) report this to their employer when the event happens so the employer can calculate a new withholding? That puts a large burden on employers and seems unworkable.

So we have our system.

It could be simpler: 0% tax rate. But most people who are not anarchists or libertarians want at least some government and need taxes.

Next simplest is probably a flat tax rate. But obviously someone who makes a $100 per year probably can't afford a 10% tax on their earnings. So we set a threshold where people pay 0% tax until they get out of poverty range. But then if you're poor + 10% of poor + $1, charging you 10% income tax to bring you back to the edge of poverty (I know, it's more precisely poverty_level/0.9) doesn't seem helpful or productive, so we charge say 1% and grow the rate as poor people's income grow since they can afford to pay more. So then we have a progressive tax, which makes things way more complicated.

At any rate, I'm not familiar with any other country's tax regimes, but I find it surprising (impossible actually) that there aren't incentives driven through the tax codes that make them all pretty complicated.

As for the "no good reason" part, well, the legislature and President passed laws to change the basic income tax for what they thought were good reasons. And of course, there's always disagreement on whether the reasons were good enough.

And as any good accountant will do, they try to abuse (take advantage of) a tax rule, and the code becomes more complicated by making more rules to close loopholes.

TL;DR Yeah, our tax code is complicated, but I can't imagine any other tax system is much simpler. Although I'd love to be enlightened