This is effectively all ready what happens. 15.3% of your gross income is paid to social security and medicare, since you can only take advantage of these programs if you either become a US citizen or permanent resident, unless you immigrate to the US after your 6 years on the H1-B visa is up you have effectively paid 15.3% more in taxes than US citizens do.

A TN is now renewable for 3 years actually. Given that engineering jobs now typically pay about 30% more in Canada and often Canadian companies have fewer weekly hours and not as many expectations of overtime, US engineers should be looking for jobs in Canada.

The real problem with the H1-B visa is that it doesn't make it easy enough to move from a H1-B to a green card. Think about it out of the person born in the US how many of them don't have the skills to become technically competent engineers or came from in bad school system or become criminals. So for every US born person who becomes a competent engineer thousands if not millions of tax dollars have been spent on people who end up on welfare, in prison, philosophy majors or worse, bankers.

Getting the best and brightest from around the world is a good deal, these are people who very rarely become criminals and are often risk takers (they did choose to leave their home country after all) who are more entrepreneurial. Look at the owners of the top tech companies, ever notice that a high percentage of them were not born in the US. If there have been abuses, focus on the abusers but simultaneously make immigration and green cards easier for the H1-Bs that do work out. Many posters have pointed out that many H1-B holders a very mediocre, that has not been my experience (I am not in IT) but look around and I think you will find simply that most candidates are mediocre.

Canada supports a much higher rate of immigration for skilled workers (a much lower rate for unskilled, undocumented workers) and has avoided the current economic depression for the most part and is now beating the US on pretty much every per ca-pita economic metric. So I can't see any evidence that skilled immigrants steal jobs. Eliminating the H1-B program would just accelerate the decline of the US economy and force innovation to happen elsewhere.

I drove my dad's recent model toyota corolla and after driving it for less than 20 minutes this happened to me. I was merging on to a freeway and after the merge the car remained accelerating after I released my foot from the from the pedal. I tried pumping the accelerator which didn't do anything other than briefly accelerate the car even more. I tried braking and this worked for a bit but when the brake was released the car would briskly accelerate again. I tried braking and releasing and braking and releasing a few more times and the same thing happened every time. Finally I braked hard (looking in my rear view mirror which was thankfully clear) and heard a distinct click and the problem went way. I can not say whether on not the accelerator was stuck due to a mechanical problem or a electronic one but I can say it was most definitely not human error or the floor mat and that it was pressing hard on the break not the accelerator that seemed to 'unstick' it. Thankfully the accelerator 'unstuck' it self without further incident but it easy to see how this sort of thing would cause a serious accident. I can safely say toyota is full of BS on this one.

from TFA "superconducting power lines kept cold by liquid nitrogen-a technology" or in other words the theoretical nearly zero ohm wire