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How is it a win for the United States if American companies are employing less people in the country, and instead are paying remote workers who pay taxes elsewh
by pavlov 3y ago
How is it a win for the United States if American companies are employing less people in the country, and instead are paying remote workers who pay taxes elsewhere?
- aiisahik 3y agoIt's not. It's just a WIN WIN for the company and the individual. But this is what the US is encouraging with its immigration policy so you reap what you sow.
- geodel 3y agoAnother thing could be that you come collecting US degrees is a WIN for US. Maybe degrees in Australia or your birth country weren't good enough for you (or you weren't good enough for them). Either way that US was able to have you for education and jobs for many years after that is win in my book.
- Dopameaner 3y agoI dont completely agree with you. Honestly, appears like an excuse to never change the USCIS, I have come peace with it, that it never will.
- geodel 3y agoBy all means they should change but I hope not to the interest of very vocal tech minority, who are already elite in their own counties, and to the detriment of other deserving groups.
- aiisahik 3y agoImagine the US parents paying $$ to get their kids into an elite kindergarten in the hopes of some day sending their kid to an Ivy League.... Only to have their spot taken by some shmuck from Australia who has never previously set foot in the US get a free ride for a $200k education.... you're going to convince them that its a WIN for America!
- geodel 3y agoSo it is either that US company got better work done at cheaper price. Means win for US as it got a tiny bit competitive. That'd be pro-market argument. Or another way that if US company has decided to not employ US born local at least those got employed overseas will not compete for housing, schools and other services for which they easily out compete locals if they are employed in US. Means another win. That would be pro-nativist argument. I know they are not much loved here but that's that.
- rayiner 3y agoThe US doesn’t understand the social burden of integrating an immigrant, and the resulting social conflict. Meanwhile, the prospective immigrant gets to stay in their homeland (most don’t really want to leave, money aside). If tax dollars are the issue, just tax the company.
- aiisahik 3y agoWhat kinda immigrant are you talking about? The immigrant they are housing in NYC hotels who arrived with 3 kids from Venezuela? Or the software engineer with a US college degree paying $>50k / year in income taxes to state and federal government? Because you know that they are only restricting the latter type of immigrant.
- rayiner 3y agoI think the immigrant with three kids from Venezuela is probably easier to integrate in a way than a skilled immigrant who was typically an elite back home. I think the latter folks are more likely to bring their culture with them and try to change America.
- Apocryphon 3y agoSoftware engineers are notoriously apolitical, even if that has been changing gradually. Plenty of technical "elites" remain separate, aloof from social life. Are foreign born doctors trying to "change America?"
- aiisahik 3y agoYou're right actually. Have you seen how many Australian coffee shops there are in New York? Crikey! Changing America one cup of flat white at a time. Tough work.
- selimthegrim 3y agoLet’s not even start on Australian sushi places.