He pays full taxes, including income tax, state tax and social security. He pays rent, food, gas, insurance.... He pays everything, including donations to charities, etc. None of his money was 'sent home' (you stated falsely that 100% of it is sent home), his money is being invested in American institutions. And the average H1-B salary IS NOT 80,000, but closer to 55,000 to 60,000.
As I mentioned earlier in post #135, I should have been more specific. There are currently agreements with 19 countries where their citizens don't pay US FICA. Although India isn't currently one of those countries, lobbyists are pushing for it.
He pays rent, food, gas, insurance.... He pays everything, including donations to charities, etc. None of his money was 'sent home' (you stated falsely that 100% of it is sent home), his money is being invested in American institutions.
Although true perhaps in your friend's case, such is not true in many other cases. I personally know of a Pakistani who was here on a H1-B. He lived with several other Pakistanis in the same apartment. He didn't have any intentions of making his nest here, he was talking about what he was going to do when he went back to Pakistan. I've gone out drinking with him, and at the time had no hard feelings. In fact, I'm not really all that bitter towards the workers themselves, it is the policy and those who pushed for it and made it law that I have serious issues with.
And the average H1-B salary IS NOT 80,000, but closer to 55,000 to 60,000.
The figure I specified was in relation to what a US worker would have made. It is the loss of the US worker's income that I was refering to.