[PLMerite]

“The entire H1B program can be solved by requiring employers pay 125% of the prevailing national wage for these positions. Voila, no problem.”

And, voila, a whole new government bureaucracy is required to determine the prevailing national wage for various techy positions. But yeah, I get your drift.

[ConservingFreedom]

The entire H1B program can be solved by requiring employers pay 125% of the prevailing national wage for these positions. Voila, no problem.

And, voila, a whole new government bureaucracy is required to determine the prevailing national wage for various techy positions.

With that requirement in place, the fiction of "shortage" will be exposed as H-1B requests dry up - leaving little work for a bureaucracy to do.