[jackbenimble]

"I call upon Congress to be realistic and reasonable and raise that cap,"

President Bush wants more American kids to study math and science but why would they bother when the Government is going to cut the legs out from under them in the employment market place?

If we want more people to go into these fields we should put policies in place that make it more lucrative.

[KarlInOhio]

Do you want to improve American competitiveness, President Bush? Then send a wing of B-52s to bomb the IRS building.

Mr. President, tear down this tax code!

[Paul Ross]

H-1B workers earn less than American counterparts, report says

As we are always told by the H-1B lobby. This is NOT happening. After all, The visa holders are supposed to be paid prevailing wages

[JoeFromSidney]

In my essay "Science and Technology for Economic Ends," which appeared in The Academy in Crisis, Transaction Publishers, 1995, I reviewed the research on the effectiveness of R&D tax credits under previous US laws, in Canada, and in Sweden. The findings, based on actual experience, was that R&D tax credits increased R&D expenditures by at most 2%, and much of that may have resulted from switching effort from "nonqualified" R&D to "qualified" R&D (i.e., qualified for the tax credit). Everyone who studied the issue concluded that the increase in R&D expenditures was less than the loss to the Treasury in taxes.

It's incredible that this idea is again resurrected after such a history of failure. Don't those clowns in Washington ever learn from history?

[KC_Conspirator]

Yet another call to allow more low wage foreigners to take American jobs. This is just the big money donations speaking.