How about a Tariff on offshore IT contracts and instead encourage made in the usa Technology, Software, and Software Professionals! It would be a sea-change for our economy.
Our nation pays penalties in many ways bringing in Indian workers. Their 'moral' code has no issue with lying, cheating, and laziness.
After more than 35 years in IT I can count on two hands the number of exceptional Indian IT workers I have worked around.
The number who are crap number in the thousands.
I could tell many stories of interviewing Indian candidates over the phone and catching them blatantly cheating in their interviews - to the point where I started asking them who won the World Series in baseball for a given year and their off-camera answer provider would look it up...