US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers

Re:US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of ... by whiddershins on Saturday November 18, 2017 @06:29PM (#15731282)

“No country has ever produced domestic prosperity by restricting trade.”

This sentence feels dogmatic to me. I would like to see a bunch of citations, and even then it would be hard to prove the negative.

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Re:US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of ... by WalterBright on Saturday November 18, 2017 @07:15PM (#15731466)

I'd like to see a case where it worked.

In any case(!), the economic principle at work here is the law of comparative advantage.

To claim that protectionism improves prosperity is to claim that the law of comparative advantage is incorrect.

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Re:US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of ... by conanbatt on Saturday November 18, 2017 @07:45PM (#15731583)

I shed a tear in Ricardian.

Of all the purported liberal ideas the U.S. thinks it embraces, restriction of immigration is one of the most baffling.

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