Posted on 05/05/2016 1:36:47 AM PDT by monkapotamus
The Trump campaign is putting forward proposals to fix problems from the long waits for medical care at Veterans Affairs facilities to the impending collapse of ObamaCare.
Check out Trump’s economic plan, for starters. Unlike Hillary Clinton’s anti-business agenda, Trump’s plan would actually help unemployed Americans get back to work.
Trump slashes the corporate-tax rate to 15 percent, down from the current 40 percent, the highest rate in the industrialized world. Not all American companies pay that staggering rate, but even after deductions and accounting maneuvers, companies in the United States end up clobbered by taxes nearly twice the global average (24 percent)...
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But what makes people so sure that the corporations will take that additional revenue and use it to create jobs in the U.S. instead of expanding production in lower cost countries or using it for stock buy-backs and increased dividends?
There are a whole lot of IT people out there who could show that it's hurting their economies.
Finally they are paying attention to trumps policies.
You can read them in his two books and his policy papers
Step 5: Forced repatriation of all the foreigners that infest our great land. By trebuchet, if necessary.
How can you say “H1-B visas aren’t actually hurting the economy”?
Every foreigner who works in America puts an American out of work.
I’d say that has a profound effect on the economy.
Because tech talent is the core resource for high-growth tech companies. Without a sufficient amount of that core resource, the fastest growing part of our economy can’t grow.
Yeah, we can eventually suck more into the training and roles, but at a higher cost/talent ratio, which makes us less competitive globally and much of tech is a global market.
There is zero unemployment for techies who have kept current with top skills. Those who are being displaced typically don’t fit that profile, but even with our current H1-B numbers, overall tech unemployment is generally negligible anyway.
Judy, I do not want foreigners to assimilate.
I want them to GTFO.
There is absolutely no longer any influence that forces foreigners to assimilate like in the old days, and I do not believe in assimilation by osmosis, wherein foreigners turn into good Americans (or Canadians) simply by existing here and rubbing elbows with Americans, or Canadians.
In fact, the opposite is true. They create ethnic enclaves in my country. There is a terrorist training camp 45 miles from my house. Automatic weapons fire can be heard emanating from there. Those people ain’t never gonna “assimilate”.
The H-1B Slave Master Big Lie.
Pass a law that all Management of foreigner H-1Bs must renounce their US citizenship.
Now that law would create a free market level playing field.
be back bump
I hear ya, T-Bone.
We stopped requiring immigrants to assimilate - we called it multiculturalism. It was MEANT to destroy our cultures.
The problem is, if they’re in your country legally, there’s nothing you can do about them not assimilating. The best that can happen is NO MORE OF THEM COME IN. Then you can concentrate on getting the illegals out by enforcing your laws.
A 15% tax rate on business would be a good start.
Businesses don’t pay taxes, business customers pay taxes.
If American business only sold to American customers then high business taxes would not make a lot of difference. The federal government and the state governments are going to raise revenues one way or another it doesn’t make a lot of difference whether we pay it in a personal income tax or we pay it through higher prices on goods and services. The problem however comes when businesses try to sell overseas and have to compete with companies that don’t pay such taxes.
Businesses don’t move out of the USA because of higher labor costs. Production costs in the USA for labor is among the least expensive in the world because of our highly trained workforce. We produce more in one hour on average than any country in the world, businesses leave the USA to go to countries where the taxes are lower.
If the US was wise we would eliminate all business tax, then other countries would send their manufacturing to the US because it will be the cheapest, best place to produce goods.
The only purpose of business tax in the USA is demagoguery. The mean old nasty businesses must pay their fair share we are told, but I repeat, businesses don’t pay taxes we do. There isn’t a politician in the world that doesn’t understand that they continue to say it because they think we’re idiots, maybe we are.
Aside from everything else the entire set of priorities which VA puts in front of veterans is wrong. The incentives are always to go to INCREASING levels of disability rather than to ever recover.
There may be some truth to what you are saying, but one unfortunate result of an excessive reliance on H1Bs is that the next generation of good people observe repressed salaries and limited opportunities of their parents generation and decide to do something else.
For all the liberals who object to the phrase “illegal alien” I suggest we substitute the phrase “illegal invader.”
Are you in the tech industry? How current are your skills?
Yes, the whole dynamic of special visas for certain classes of workers is fraught with crony capitlist labor market distortions.
Generally, however, we would be better off if instead of the lottery, extended family reunification and low-cost labor criteria we have been ising, we at least did like Canada and Australia have—which only allows immigrants who can more than pay for themselves.
Such supposition is short sighted, and dangerous.
Today we have huge caches of US talent being underbid by imported H1B visa applicants. US companies will take less talented, cheaper labor that they import at the expense of local highly qualified talent.
Reducing or eliminating imported talent until all Americans that qualify are working will help our bottom line in America, and insure our technological edge and eliminate the huge brain drain from our workforce.
Your presumption that we cannot fill the opening in tech companies is incorrect. The cheap import is what is driving the tech companies, period. The danger is that the cheap labor is worth about what it costs. The outcome is that real talent with experience is left to languish.
Your statement that tech people are not current with their skills shows your simply either not informed or lying. Highly qualified and educated people are being replaced with cheaper, unqualified people and the end product is paying the price, and often create safety concerns for the consumer, sometimes with deadly consequences.
Step 4.5: FReeper Read Write Repeat gives media a tour of gang infested areas in Nevada for “illegal alien re-education.”
I hope they each bring a pair of good sneakers because I’m going to drop them off in the thick of it.
Sorry, I am in the industry. I know.
And the more expensive tech talent is in a specific market, the fewer the tech jobs and the less the tech activity there will be in that market.
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