[fatnotlazy]

Ok, I'm a dope, but can we give an incentive to companies to hire American? Example: in these tax reform programs that set a uniform tax rate for companies — how about a lower rate for those companies which hire American and a higher rate for those which import workers?

Now, how would we tell if companies are hiring American? Would it create a whole new bureaucracy that would defeat the purpose of tax simplification? I don't know.

I'm just not sure a flat out ban on legal immigrants would be good for business if the business has an opportunity to hire a legal immigrant who has special skills Americans don't have.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I don’t want to ban legal immigrants with skills we need. I just don’t want companies to replace American workers with cheap foreign labor without a stiff penalty.