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The United States should be offering permanent residency to practically everyone with a Ph.D.
Maybe they could start with medical doctors before they start replacing Ph.D's in the STEM field. Just to be certain that it will work, you know.
Per [1], the House version contains important immigration provisions. 1) The bill would create a new category of non-immigrant visa called the W visa for owners (W-1) or essential employees (W-2) of start-up companies and their dependent family members (W-3). 2) The bill would exempt applicants holding a PhD in a STEM field from the annual per-country green card limits, enabling them to quickly apply for permanent re…
> 1) The bill would create a new category of non-immigrant visa called the W visa for owners (W-1) or essential employees (W-2) of start-up companies and their dependent family members (W-3). I'm always disappointed in this style of visa. These are the kinds of people we want to keep , not make their stay contingent on working at or running a startup. To me, it's really stupid that anything but a tourist/business vis…
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Why would we want non-STEM PhDs? These are not additive to the U.S. economy or culture. We have a glut of non-STEM PhD holders as it stands.
you're being downvoted for the second sentence, but the third sentence is indisputably true.
If you mean most PhDs don’t get faculty jobs, well, then we have a glut of basketball, football, and baseball players too.
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Does government allocation of funds make a difference when competing with China? It would seem that the Chinese government would simply match/re-up the industrial policy to be more competitive. If we're concerned about over reliance on Chinese manufacture, why not create a tariff?
It surely would still make a difference, even though China's reaction would partially negate it, right? When there's government stimulus money to be had, someone's going to jump on the opportunity to use it up, even if prices are lower from China.
As any government subsidy, it usually not only does not bring the desired result, but whatever it does bring costs much more than any free market participant would be willing to pay for it. Unless that is subsidised as well.
China very successfully was able to reduce whole industries to nothing by subsidising those industries in China and subsidising the price of their output. One example is Rare Earth, there used to be some production of those things outside of China, there are none today. Want a magnet for your motor? China!
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Forgot all PhDs, it is next to impossible for most students and researchers who get advanced degrees from American universities to get work visas or permanent residency. We get the best talent from all over the world, spend billions on educating them, and then force them to go home.
Good time to start a fake PhD mill business!
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Is the US spending billions to educate them, or are they spending billions to be educated here?
I think most PhDs are paid for by the University, not the students. In computer science, and I'd imagine most other stem at least.
To give an idea of how much content is in this bill, please see "Sec. 74029. Beverage containing coconut water." where duties on imports of beverages containing at least 10% coconut water are hereby free .
That is the stupidest shit I've ever seen. Just flat rate everything and get rid of all the special exemptions and trash that just creates loopholes. If this results in a lot of things soon containing 11% coconut water, I might just snap.
Big companies pay lobbyists to add these in. It is no accident that these end up in the tax code.
it should be made illegal to vote on bunch of separate laws as one package
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you're being downvoted for the second sentence, but the third sentence is indisputably true.
Depends what you mean by “glut” — if you mean the welfare rolls are full of English PhDs, or the ranks of middle management are gummed up with French Literature PhDs, or the arms of government administration are overrun by political science PhDs, then sure. If you mean most PhDs don’t get faculty jobs, well, then we have a glut of basketball, football, and baseball players too.
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the US government isn't in control of the dollar rate - the central bank is private.
We both know that this isn't true. First, the US government gets to run an arbitrary deficit, which is essentially the same as printing money. Secondly, the Fed's board is appointed by the government and can be recalled by the government. Thirdly, if the US government wanted they could change all of the rules governing the fed. It has nothing to do with not being able to. The US just decides it's more profitable to h…