[TChris]

It's not a free market when you bring in a labor force that is restricted from competing for higher salaries and must stay with a company for 6 years.

OK, yes it is restricted to a degree. You're right.

But it's far more capitalist in nature than the protectionist cries for restricting H-1Bs across the board. After the contractual 6 years are finished, it's purely free market.

[newguy357]

But it's far more capitalist in nature than the protectionist cries for restricting H-1Bs across the board. After the contractual 6 years are finished, it's purely free market.

This is nonsense. The resevoir of H1Bs is nearly limitless, with time. A company buys some for six years, and when they complete their obligation they are dumped from some brand-new H1Bs. It is a trough of endless cheap labor, which only exists because of government policy. That is not a free market. That is what destroys economies.

[avacado]

"But it's far more capitalist in nature than the protectionist cries for restricting H-1Bs across the board. After the contractual 6 years are finished, it's purely free market."

Actually, it's more communism than anything to restrict a worker to 1 company for 6 years without the ability to access the free market by accepting better job offers. That's not how America works.