Ohio senator introduces 25% tax on companies that outsource jobs overseas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45146528 - September 2025 (68 comments)

OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44469124 - July 2025 (370 comments) [15 year amortization required for international R&D]

This is good news for China: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3318178/tale...

SCMP is owned by Alibaba, which is subject to the purview of the Chinese Central Government [1].

[1]: https://www.cecc.gov/agencies-responsible-for-censorship-in-...

Lol, you really think the h1bs will go to China to work 996?

No, Chinese will stay home instead of immigrating to the US.

China draws mainly on the talents of the best of its billion+ population. But America has had its pick of the best of the world's 8 billion people. If people stop immigrating to the US, then we will surely fall behind technologically, economically and militarily, and soon we will be making t-shirts for Chinese for $5 an hour.

For big tech 100k isn’t too much of a hit to hire the best AI researchers of Chinese descent, so they won’t be impacted.

It will be too much if the worker leaves after a month, or gets hit by a truck.

If an H1B worker "leaves after a month" they get deported. Meanwhile, nothing in the world can prevent the Bus Factor so I don't see how that's even relevant.

don't respond to him, it's just a LLM posting pro-China stuff on HN

Tariffs on offshoring are next.

Wasn’t that already effectively put in place with the changes to the exemptions on how R&D is treated for tax purposes? (I’m not in the US so this may have evolved now, I’m not sure.)

Do you think that matters to them? They'll burn it all down if they think it scores a political point.

They could already outsource for cheaper than the cost of an H1B