So two things:

1. It's not an annual fee. It's a one-time fee.

2. It does not apply to existing H1B visas. Only new ones.

So it's actually a lot more reasonable than initially discussed here yesterday. I think it's a fair change.

On the whole I agree, but there are 2 concerning details:

1. The possibility of allowing exceptions at the discretion of the administration is ripe for corruption.

2. The 24 hour notice for visa holders out of the country added unnecessary chaos to companies with employees traveling for business or personal reasons

I may be wrong, but it seems to me the basic rule is that everything must be voluntary and well-informed, except in self-defence.

It seems to me if I am an individual or business, with my own money, want to hire someone, it is wholly a private matter.

These are my possessions and I am choosing to do as I see fit, and I am not forcing others to do something, to tricking them into doing something.

It seems to me then the very existence of constraints upon whom can be employed is wrong from first principles.

If we argue in this case it is acceptable, then we must in fact be arguing in general there are cases where others or the State can impose itself, by force or by trickery, upon people, without the justification of self-defence (perhaps the State thinks that all American shipping must be staffed only by American sailors, or that there is a need for a national raisin reserve, or that we need reciprocal tariffs on every other country we trade with).

Indeed, to argue for this means that we ourselves are saying it is fine for others to impose themselves on ourselves by force or by trickery, which I think no one would actually agree with, since this includes being robbed.