Posted on 01/26/2017 12:47:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Edited on 01/30/2017 7:57:50 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
MEXICO CITY--President Enrique Pe
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How about taxing the remittances illegals send to Mexico? Well, at least until the President puts them all out of work .. heh
“Mexicans view a wall across the 2,000-mile border as a symbolic affront”
Walls do work. (just ask Cankles about her walled-in Chappaqua compound). Even more importantly, the wall (with accompanying armed Border Patrol agents) will send a very strong message: “Obey our immigration laws or pay the price.”
“Mexicans view a wall across the 2,000-mile border as a symbolic affront”
Walls do work. (just ask Cankles about her walled-in Chappaqua compound). Even more importantly, the wall (with accompanying armed Border Patrol agents) will send a very strong message: “Obey our immigration laws or pay the price.”
It will encourage US companies to relocate to the US.
I think lower regulations and incentives will help. I think high tariffs in general are a bad idea & is just more money from us to big government. Now the pendulum has swung way too far towards globalism. It needs to move back and we need enough key products made here from a national security standpoint if nothing else. But I don’t think all products have to be made in the US. It’s not an all or nothing situation. Trump is moving the pendulum which is great and is in the opening salvo of statements to influence negotiations on trade.
Mexico is a separate case. They have screwed us because of illegal immigration and will have to compensate us for a wall or whatever it takes to enforce the border. I like Mexican financial transaction taxes or other means targeted at Mexico paying rather than us.
Actually, I think both are true. We beat them in a war for the territory, then turned around and paid them for the land.
Treaty of Guadelupe.
'Repatriate' is the word, but I like what you did there.
I can't wait. Illegals have flooded my industry and forced down wages for far too long. They've actively stolen at least a million dollars off my family's table over the last decade.
Exactly. People seem to think it’s Mexico selling their goods here, when it’s actually US companies buying in Mexico. The biggest beneficiaries are going to be the US producers who weren’t competitive and who will effectively be getting a government subsidy now. Same way we pay more for sugar than anyplace else in the world.
It's finally caught up to Mehico and it's about 25 years late, and it finally took a D.C. outsider to set them straight.
Trump in 2020!
Oh gezzz...No, you might pay more, I'll buy American thanks, even if it's a bit more.
And if YOU want to reward a country where millions of it's people have totally disrespected our laws and rules for decades, you be my guest.
Knock yourself out!
You got it where so many do not.
It’s actually a move that enables, by avoiding to deal directly with, stupid government policies and interference that make our companies less competitive. Trump is going after high taxes and regulations. That is good. He is not (yet) going after federal protection of unions and not going after the miserable and unconstitutional federal minimum wage. That is not good.
Either way, tariffs don’t solve any of these root cause problems and make matters worse for the American consumer.
You best stay tuned and watch everything incrementally improve for the American consumer. I mean everything. It’s coming.
Btw, the man can only do so much. He cannot make America great again in his first few days in office.
These trade agreements such a NAFTA and others were government forced lowing of living standards for millions of factory workers and others over the past thirty or more years. We should never have entered such trade agreements with Third World nations because the only thing that could happen is what did happen, a trade of US factories and jobs for cheap labor, resulting in thousands of plants leaving the US to produce in cheap labor nations and ship back to the US market.
That needs to be reversed and any reductions in living standards of consumers will be tiny compared to the reduction in living standards of the factory workers who lost jobs to these past agreements.
We should have free trade with nations of comparable living standards, and tariffed trade with cheap labor nations in most cases.
“the American distribution point receiving the imports will be paying 20% more”
No.
The increased cost can be passed on to consumers OR it can passed on to workers or even to investors.
OR it can be absorbed by the suppliers.
What would actually happen would depend on the economic power of the participants.
But one can safely say that neither 0% nor 100% of the tax will be paid by consumers.
Dumb idea.....If we buy say 1 billion barrels of oil per year from them for $45.00 each.....simply advise that we will still buy the oil, but $43.00 goes to them, $2.00 goes toward the wall.....simple!!
Congratulations on missing the point!
There’s more than one way to skin the cat. If you tax the remittances you do three positive things...
1. punish Mexico’s economy (receive less remittances)
2. punish the mexicans who are illegally by taking some of their money (in essence they would be paying for the wall)
3. not make americans pay more for imported products (by adding a tariff)
Let’s then make it 100% - that would encourage them even more. And then when they relocate here they can sell their stuff to you for double what you pay now.
Stack scotus and get rid of anchor babies from illegals. That will stop a lot of this
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