[tao_oat]

There is a salary floor already, but it's pretty low at $60k/year.

[ido]

Sounds like it would have been simpler to just raise it to $160k instead of introducing a $100k fee.

[827a]

Yeah; it would have had the added benefit of generating more revenue for the government via increased income taxes ($100k * income tax rate over N years versus $100k only once).

But I think the reality about the H1-B program no one wants to state plainly is that its effectively a system of voluntary indentured servitude, and its important to all of the masters of the program that the visa holders accumulate as little power as possible.

[jalapenos]

Not simpler if the goal is tuk urr jaaabs