Well I never answered anyone's question, tried to, or claimed to be able to. I said IANAL just as you did. I never claimed to have anything other than an opinion. I think I even made it pretty clear that I'm not in the US and don't know how its visas and taxes work.

> A work visa is a permission to take a job out of the US employment pool, and the flaw in the law is that if you are working on your own company (inc side project) abroad, you are not really taking a job out of the US market because you wouldn't have hired anyone anyway.

Exactly. Hence 'I don't see why'. Not legal advice. An opinion that it's (assuming true) dumb. I don't see what the problem is with expressing that opinion on these 'opinion led forums'.