@moira It also gives them another way to punish and reward people, companies, and industries for resistance and compliance to their dictates.

Companies so punished can expect to have higher costs than their competitors and to be pushed out of business thereby.

@moira

Yes... Just like the tarrifs, million dollar While House dinners and 747 aircraft and ...

It's graft, sleeze and corruption all the way.

@moira remember the $15,000 tourist visa bond?
@moira It's all about paying tribute to the king.
@moira astronaut meme: what, it's all... corruption? / Always has been.

@moira It's a wealth transfer: India -------> US.

Method: All America will do is get the Indians to pay, then fire them, then get more people to pay and replace them, then fire them, then repeat......

Keeps the money flowing indefinitely from India to America. Which is a transfer of wealth.

(India because almost all H1B visas go to Indians)

#h1b

@moira When entering, bring your wallet with Trump coins to prove you bribed the pedopres
@moira Adolf Hitler took a cut out of every portrait of him sold.

@moira The Nazi regime was notorious for this kind of governance. Bribery and grift was tolerated as long as the perpetrators didn’t take from the revenue stream going to top officials. After awhile people stopped noticing, it was just the way things were done.

It’s one of the things that made the Nazi regime easier to defeat. The government was a shambolic mess of incompetence, infighting and bribery.