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A Visa for Job Creators
- hartror 16y ago"To continue reading subscribe now" No
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- karzeem 16y ago"Mr. Anderson, a former Immigration and Naturalization Service official, says the U.S. would do better to discard capital requirements and welcome any foreign national who can present a business plan that passes muster with the Small Business Administration." The part about discarding capital requirements is a clear win, but why not go further and scrap the idea of having the SBA screen the business plans? It's an obvious place for the process to go Kafkaesque, and as step to keep people from gaming the system, it's easy to defeat. How about a visa for anybody who wants to come start a business here, period. (Maybe with the proviso that they're not allowed to draw welfare while on the visa.)
- miloshh 16y agoAgreed; unfortunately, the people that will immediately imagine hordes of terrorists entering the country pretending to be entrepreneurs form a significant portion of the electorate.
- _delirium 16y agoI think in this case they're worried less about terrorists (who can be excluded on other grounds) and more about mass immigration in general. Simply requiring that you say you have a business plan is equivalent to having no requirements, since anyone can say that. I'm pretty pro-immigration in general, but wouldn't it be more direct to just greatly increase the immigration quotas, rather than making people go through the charade of pretending to have a business plan? Either that, or if you want to insist that it be a real business plan and not a charade, you need someone to vet them.
- mtviewdave 16y ago"How about a visa for anybody who wants to come start a business here, period." How about removing the employer sponsorship from H-1B and L-1 visas and converting them into general right-to-work visas? Then an H-1B/L-1 visa holder could start their own business without needing government approval.
- chris_l 16y agoWell in some fields every individual worker has their own business pro forma. So these would be harmed disproportionately by cheap immigrant competition. The capital requirement ensures that the new business is in competition with substantial existing companies.
- shykes 16y agoHow about giving you a deadline to actually create a business, maybe with some threshold of employment, revenue, cash, patent, or other tangible sign of value creation?
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- piguy314 16y agoWhy does the WSJ even have a paywall if it's so trivial to defeat (change your referrer to google)?
- exit 16y agowhy not just let anyone live anywhere?
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- _politicalist 16y agoBecause that's the wrong kind of "globalization." Investor-oriented globalization is the kind where a wealthy person can move his factory to Mexico and demand many of the same rights he gets in the US; but a poor Mexican can't go to New York and do likewise. For more information: http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/2006----.htm http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/2006----.htm