You can also just tax the difference from prevailing wages; take those taxes and...

jedberg · on Aug 21, 2018

In theory all H1B workers already get “prevailing wage”. It’s part of the law. So the tax would be 0.

The issue is that it really isn’t prevailing wage.

mavelikara · on Aug 21, 2018

> and earmark them for training of laid off workers of same industry.

A portion ($1500) of most H-1B application fees goes towards funding scholarship and training programs. This is called " ACWIA fee" - see [1] and [2] for details.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Competitiveness_and_W...

[2]: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...