I will say as a former democrat (and now republican), that the left wing does get screwed by their party. It seems likely that if their party didn’t have a super delegate system, (ie more democratic) they would get much more economically populist candidates. Instead they just get socially extreme candidates with a sprinkling of economic populism.
While I disagree with the kind of policies such a candidate would bring, I think it would actually be much better for the country if these issues are actually litigated in an election.
A good example of this is the student loan cancellation issue. While I think it would have been a disastrous policy it’s something that the majority of democratic voters clearly supported. The party had a congressional super majority and could have passed something through congress. Instead they waited until after they had lost that majority and “tried” to do it through blatantly illegal executive action.
Biden was to the democratic base as trump would be to the republican base if he hadn’t done anything about immigration or trade.
I think this policy actually seems pretty reasonable, if you are a company that is using this program to hire exceptional people you can afford it(google earns like 2 million per employee). If you have been abusing it to run your IT help desk then you won’t be able to do so any more. If it’s a lot more expensive it will also mean that it’s easier to get an H1Bs visa since the system won’t be flooded with applicants as it is now.
Access to the us labor market should be expensive. There a lot of negative externalities associated with the kind of inequality the us has now and enacting policies which increase wages are one of the best ways to address this. As an aside if you want to understand how detrimental this program has been in terms of suppressing wages for technical professionals just go onto https://www.clearancejobs.com/ and look at how much more these roles pay compare to similar roles in other industries where hiring foreigners is mostly prohibited.
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