3 ways to reduce unemployment and help fix our economy

1. Eliminate all corporate tax breaks and subsidies, including the New Deal era farm subsidies that at one time helped small farmers, but now only help agricultural corporations. Eliminate Bush tax cuts for millionaires/billionaires. Use the savings to create a paid national service, directly employing people to repair infrastructure, build clean energy plants, help in classrooms, etc.

2. Go after CEOs and boardrooms of corporations that hire illegal immigrants. Hold the CEO and senior management criminally liable if their company is employing illegal immigrants. Make it a felony, subject to massive fines and 5+ years in federal prison. In order to make this politically viable, an exception may have to be provided for households hiring help. (Call it the Whitman exception?) Create a large investigative force to enforce this, pulling people from other agencies like the DEA.

3. Permanently eliminate all new H1b visas. H1b is a lie - there are plenty of Americans to do these jobs - H1bs are simply hired on to replace American workers, who often are forced to train their replacements. Give current H1b holders the choice of leaving their tech jobs to do 2 years of service and earn citizenship, or promptly go back to their country of origin.

4. EDIT - Just remembered a 4th way: Impose a "Sweatshop Tariff." Goods imported from other countries are tariffed based on the purchasing power of the wages of the countries of origin. The tax money from the tariffs is applied to a break/refund in local payroll taxes.

Also, punish companies that close plants here to re-open them in other countries.

If they want to take their shit somewhere else, fine. Double their taxes (after a revision of corporate tax code, of course - after all, double of zero wouldn't help).

That's why our Congress work as agents for the rich. How does your plan make rich people richer?