PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION!
Posted on 01/10/2017 2:24:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Mexico has insisted it won't pay for President-elect Trump's promised border wall, but Mexicans living in the United States might.
Trump has been accused of breaking a key campaign promise by asking Congress to fund the wall through the appropriations process. He had vowed to build the "big, beautiful wall" along the U.S.-Mexican border at Mexico's expense and is still suggesting funds appropriated by Congress for the wall will be reimbursed at a later date.
It became a call and response during Trump campaign rallies. Supporters would chant "Build the wall!" and the candidate would ask, "Who's going to pay for it?" The crowd would roar back, "Mexico!"
The use of the congressional appropriations process for security fence construction doesn't preclude some efforts to make Mexico pay. One idea that is still on the table is taxing remittances, the money immigrants in the United States send to their relatives back home, and using the money for the wall.
Taxing remittances might provide enough money to fund lower-end cost estimates for the wall, although it is difficult to know because the tax would likely reduce remittances or drive them underground, making it hard for the U.S. to use that money to fund a massive project some say will cost $38 billion. One Republican congressional aide described discussions as "ongoing" with no set details about tax rates or collection practices.
Remittances to Mexico saw their biggest gains in a decade after Trump was elected, and totaled just under $2.4 billion in November 2016. A Reuters analysis concluded this was a nearly 25 percent jump from a year earlier.
Major Mexican financial institution BBVA Bancomer forecast that Mexicans living in the United States sent a record $27 billion home last year, up $2 billion from 2015.
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Was at Trump Tower two nights ago. Was told that they would use all the drug money to build the wall.
Eat that, libs.
That’s a distinction without a difference!.............
One thing’s for sure - somebody’s got to pay for it...and it ain’t gonna be the American taxpayer.
If the wall isn’t built, the cost is America dying as it becomes just another Mexico or Venezuela.
It’s worth a hundred billion if it saves America.
And doesn’t matter who pays for it. Just build it.
And when America pays for a wall, it isn’t paid for by Americans?
Whatever you do, don’t tell this to Vicente Fox.
He will choke on his Tequilla! “Como? Repeatar un otra vez. Este es NO la verdad! NO!!”
I’m totally OK with that!
I’m not sure what yokel thought Trump was going to wait until he had every penny in hand to build the wall, but that wasn’t my take on it.
If you want the wall the fastest way possible, you build it and devise ways to pay for it after the fact.
I’m not in favor of waiting for five million more people to cross the border before we start work.
Well, the US taxpayer is paying for illegal mexican healthcare, so I don’t see any unfairness here.
I thought Mexico was made up of Mexicans. Silly me.
If we just collected the drug money going South we could pay for a $14 Billion wall by year end.
Agreed. It has to be done, regardless.
agreed, the situation only gets worse with each passing day. Gotta stop the bleeding.
I like the idea.
That said, we need to build the [gosh danged] wall...
...NOW!
We can quibble about expenses along the way.
Hmmm, what about a little "house vigorish" on EBT cards?
“:^)
Uh... Mexico _is_ Mexicans.
>>making it hard for the U.S. to use that money to fund a massive project some say will cost $38 billion. <<
In a multi-trillion budget, 38 billion is a rounding error.
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