H1Bs are a form of corporate welfare that has to stop. Let me TL;DR this for you.<p>Q. &quot;B-b-but there&#x27;s a shortage of skilled workers!&quot;<p>A. Good, let supply-demand make you pay what you should be paying for it. Let our colleges give meaningful education to people they&#x27;re putting in debt for jobs they can actually get later on.<p>Our economy is bleeding to death while corporations rack in record profits because of outsourcing.<p>Few simple rules that would help a lot.<p>* Want an H1B? Pay them in the top 10th percentile of similar domestic professionals&#x27; wages.
* Want an H1B? Great, but once you sponsor it, they&#x27;re free to work for anyone in the U.S.
* Want an H1B? Great, but you&#x27;ll be limited to no more than 5% of your total employees.
* That 5% limit includes overseas offices and &quot;international&quot; owned ventures.<p>If a company is domestic, they should stay domestic. If it&#x27;s international, they have no need for H1Bs.<p>I&#x27;m writing this as a disgruntled software engineer turned into a business owner.<p>People getting away with crap like this is infuriating.