>I'm just confused as to what you actually want to see happen to the SV bully-boys.I'd love to see the value of their businesses destroyed through zealous over-regulation. I'd love to see the IRS target them for audits the way Obama's IRS targeted conservative groups. I'd love for them to be criminally prosecuted, and -- dare I dream? -- jailed for any violations of the tax code that might be uncovered. That would wipe the smug off their faces.
The political left in America no longer employs persuasion as their primary means of gaining and maintaining political power. Instead, they attempt to inflict social or financial punishment on their political enemies to shut them up. Recall the reaction when Peter Thiel had the audacity to support a presidential candidate they opposed. Google [memories pizza] for another example.
So if that is how the game is played these days, then I want the right to use the same tactics against the left, and inflict massive pain on them until they offer a truce.
I'm basically an Adam Smith free-market libertarian. I think the country, as a whole, would be better off if the cap on H1Bs was lifted entirely. Productive, tax-paying, wealth-creating people would flood into this country and enrich it.
But politics is war these days. And Airbnb is more than just an enterprise, it's a wing of the Democratic party. So I think the Republicans should, to paraphrase Obama, "punish [their] enemies and reward [their] friends."