[chairmansteve]

"Personally I think offshoring is a far worse problem for workers than H1-Bs".

Yes, it's complicated. Arguably, when foreigners buy American made software eg, Microsoft products, they are offshoring software development to America.

So... if you start limiting software "imports" aka offshoring, other countries will do the same. So Microsoft will sell a lot less.

[palmotea]

> So... if you start limiting software "imports" aka offshoring, other countries will do the same. So Microsoft will sell a lot less.

1. You don't really have to target software "imports," especially since software is only part of the offshoring problem. It makes more sense to go directly after certain kinds of employment and labor contracting agreements.

2. Also, you really only have to target India and you solve most of the problem.