Re:What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers
by RonaldDR on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:31AM
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I realize this is not exactly a community that is friendly to being called out, but I have to simply say that it is inherently immoral to not only pay H1-B holders the same, tax them the same, let alone not make corporations that want to hire H1-Bs to sabotage indigenous populations in order to profit more, not pay massive penalties that only increase over time for the privilege of hiring a foreign national they poach away from another society, in order to compensate for systemic and fundamental mismanagement and failure at national governance at every single level.
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Re:What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers
by belltaco on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:00AM
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>tax them the same
What? They are taxed the same. In fact, they are taxed more. They pay for Social Security and Medicare even if they never get to use them. They also have to pay state unemployment insurance but they cannot claim the benefits from it. Not to mention the food stamp program etc.
I am confused with your wording and the use of double negatives, are you saying they shouldn't be charged for things they won't use?
Re:What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers
by ganeshkrishnan on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:03AM
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Correct. Majority of the social security is never used by h1b. Also need your own insurance, cannot claim any benefits, have to leave the country in 24 hours if h1b lose the job, cannot claim business expenses...
Re:What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers
by screye on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:11AM
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just saying, h1b usually have about 2 months of unemployment since being fired. Not great, but not a single day either.
your statement about social welfare is reality for Indian h1bs. They will never be able to get a green card, and yet pay all the taxes for them. 8% of your salary is pretty steep for something you can't touch, ever.
Re:What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers
by ganeshkrishnan on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:17PM
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It probably changed with the Obama administration but when I was on H1b it was said that we had to leave as soon as possible. Maybe you are right because we could never find a legal source of truth for this info. The point is, we have to leave everything. If you have kids, car, school for kids, house everything goes out.