TIL: F1OPT visa workers NOR THEIR EMPLare NOR THEIR EMPLOYER pay Social Security or Medicare taxes. 15.3% discount off American labor!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/the_disappearing_american_worker.html

From the article:

One such privileged program is the F-1 OPT visa worker. F-1 visas are those granted to foreigners studying in the U.S. After graduating from university, these visas can be used for employment in the U.S. via OPT, optional practical training. They give a standard one year of eligibility, but they can be extended to three years for STEM graduates.

These foreign grads are preferred over U.S. grads due to a shocking tax bias, they are not subject to FICA taxes! Neither they, nor their employer, are charged Social Security or Medicare taxes during their F-1 OPT employment. This makes them hireable at a 15.3% discount over Americans.

So the corporation is given a tax benefit for reducing the American citizen employment base, the very base that keeps Social Security and Medicare solvent.

The results have been devastating for young Americans, while simultaneously underfunding the retirement fund for American seniors. The IRS details the bias on its website here.

#OPT #Market #Visa #Tax

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@hy that's not racism.

@hy ANd yet, he is correct! NONE of us wants to hear your horrible thick accent that makes no sense. And they can't solve any problem, or stray from a script. They are worthless. I keep asking for a mnager then a director, then a director in the US. ANd when they give their name, I just look them up and find their boss, and his boss, and his boss - and tell him how worthless the first guy was, and how you can't understand a word they say. Then it's awesome to go back and look up that first guy, and see they have been terminated! Cleaning it up, one at a time!

@gb Ah. A racist yank. What a surprise. Good on you Bubba.

@fy I am not in India. EMEA actually. Bratislava to be precise. My comment stands.

@c9 Probably because there isn't a single US citizen - or honestly any person - who wants to call in for tech support and be connected to some random Indian who has broken English, a thick accent, and sounds like they just learned a few English words last week... Might as well have a mouth full of curry in their mouth. Not to mention, most of them are very rude and impatient. To top that all off, their boss is almost always based IN the US so if the customer wants to escalate, guess who they get to talk to? An ENGLISH speaker!

Sorry but, NOBODY fkn wants to talk to an Indian techie.

@b0 No. All these fresh CompSci graduates/or honestly and newly graduate are having a hard time finding jobs because they all feel entitled to a mid 6 figure salary right out the door, with zero working experience; All while turning down jobs that offer under 120k/year.

To top that off, companies are getting rid of Gen-Z employees and/or new grads within months of hire because they DON'T work. They want things their way and their way only. Yeah, so do I but idk... I prefer doing something someone else's way if that means I keep a job and collect a check to you know, pay my bills and stuff.

Sorry but, most of the new college grads absolutely can find jobs. That isn't the problem. The problem is that none of them want to start at the bottom, with a 60k salary bc like I said, they all feel entitled to that nice mid 6 figure salary... just because they have a "college degree." Which is worthless in the IT world, btw.

I'm pretty sure you are somehow trying to blame Trump for this but unfortunately for your ignorant self, this is nothing new and has been in place FAR before Trump was ever in politics..

Either way, this is really no different than Dell offshoring tech support jobs to India or wherever else. If you think these Visa holders are making the same amount of money that a US citizen would make, well then you are quite naive.

@c9 You can tell how many from India are on here trying to control the conversation. Too bad no matter what you are told, you make far less than even lower ranked Americans. GBTI!

It's always been like that for H1B's, so what.

This is not a new regulation. It’s been in effect for years.

Yeah. American enterprises have discovered that you can actually have an efficient workforce if there are less Americans in that workforce. Who needs the aggravation of quiet-quitters, card-tapping-wfh-vigilantes and overweight whingebags when you can get qualified, motivated workers for less?

that is why graduates are having hard time find jobs right now. Old folks and brand new folks are finding it tough.

That's just nuts. How are graduates supposed to get a job if greedy sh--s like MD can just hire foreign workers inside the US without the same tax burden?

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