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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by hdydhdjdx on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:19PM (#24703600)
The US economy isn't the same as the state economy. For local revenue states and cities could simply tax the employer a percent of the outsourced employee's paycheck and if the problem did become federal then the federal government could do the same. Since these employees are coming from places with a lower CoL there's no reason they couldn't make up the difference in savings anyway.
Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by belltaco on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:16AM (#24705504)
Moves like that would be dangerous, because what's stopping the company from moving their office or HQ out of that state or city or even the country to escape taxing of someone that isn't even in the country. And then, forget about the tax on the non existent employees, real local employees could be out of a job.