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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That means the American consumer will pay for the border wall by paying 20% more for Mexican goods.
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Then don’t buy so many Mexican goods.
Those goods can be made in America....EXACTLY. ...and by Americans with American jobs paying taxes to America.
Its funny how an increase of maybe 20 percent in the cost of goods coming from a country that continually disrespects America is seemed worse that millions of Americans losing their jobs.
If you don’t have a stinking job, the 20 percent don’t mean squat ...you’ve lost 100 percent of your money. The cost of goods vs the cost of jobs...and this 20 percent will bring jobs back to America. I hope Trump and his people explain this well.
Its not about just the wall its about the jobs.
Viva Trump
How will increasing robotics help the good jobs for Americans issue?
Your car part might go up 30 percent but then the price just might go down by 50 percent because the economy won’t be burdened with 10 million illegals ....and American Companies will start producing your car part and competing among themselves using higher tech than the manual labor in mexico, resulting in even more savings.
You might save even more because without 10 million illegals to support your income tax might be going down too.
I am supporting Trump and his use of all his array of economic weaponry and strategy.....and after what Nafta has done to U.S.....20 percent is a bargain to make this Country Great Again.
Produce is a significant amount of the Mexican imports. I haven’t seen too many Hecho en Mexico tags on produce. And unless global warming is true we won’t be seeing that much additional US land for winter crops.
poorly paid Mexican workers who will then have even more incentive to flee to the US.
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fleeing won’t be an option anymore.....they will have to stay home and fix their own country.
This will bring more jobs back to the USA thus helping the American Worker get work again.
Mexico will lose even more industry...unless they decide to pay for the wall....and they may do the math and figure out that it is much cheaper to build a wall than to have even more of their people unemployed and unhappy and thus cause a revolution that throws those in power out.
oh yes ...Mexico will pay....those companies that are in Mexico will leave...and they will come back here where they will employ Americans.....meanwhile Mexico will suffer with less taxes for their corrupt government and more mexicans unhappy and unable to flee north....causing an overthrow of the government South of the Border.
Mexico will decide it is a bargain if they build the wall for U.S.
We build and repair robots with Americans in America ...thats jobs that are higher paying for U.S.
Which means Mexican products are not selling, and is, therefore, an incentive for them to deal with Trump.
I’m not sure if this is one of several options Trump has in mind but it isn’t going to happen while we are still in NAFTA anyway, or even while it is being renegotiated.
There was money allocated to pay for the damn wall under Bush. Where is THAT money? There is so much waste in our Government I believe we can manage to come up with the money from the waste alone to pay for it. Just build the damn thing!
>>20 percent is a bargain
Doesn’t quite sound like “MEXICO is going to pay for the wall” though does it.
And BTW, where does prosecution of the Corporate Kleptocrats who’ve been benefiting from the hiring the illegal ants in the sugar bowl fit in to the plan?
The corporate kleptocrats responsible for importing illegals will probably be given de facto amnesty. The need a string a 30-year sentences, but that’s not going to happen.
Well if Trump is putting a 20% import tax on Mexican goods then he is seriously considering getting out of NAFTA. You can’t have it both ways. Sounds like a plan to me.
"Government-forced free trade" is an oxymoron. "Free trade" by definition is "free" of government coercion or interference. Free trade is the voluntary cooperation of buyers and sellers in the marketplace without government interference or coercion and is what creates wealth.
Leftists always steer away from the root problems caused by government coercion ("the government is never wrong") and interference and many misguided on the Right think the free market is the culprit. But our economic ills have been artificially induced by the feds through high taxes, suffocating regulations, union protection and unconstitutional minimum wage. Tariffs attack none of these root causes but, as government always does, adds more government coercion and interference into the economy making matters worse for the American consumer.
Increased costs are passed on to the consumer in the form of increased prices - otherwise you go out of business. That’s why the name of the game in the marketplace of free enterprise is always minimum cost. Least cost translates into lower prices. Low prices and maximum quality wins every time a free market economy and the consumer always wins.
Haven’t you had your lobotomy yet?
Americans need work
to keep them free.
Globalism hurts
both you and me.
Protectionism is great
try it and see.
Burmashave
That equals government forcing a lower standard of living if particular Mexican goods are the best priced, highest quality of that particular good on the marketplace. That is government telling you that you must settle for less than the best. Government ALWAYS says that.
The voluntary cooperation of buyers and sellers in the marketplace free from government coercion and interference creates wealth and prosperity. Government always creates poverty.
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