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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Nope. Shipping out Housing Project Freeloaders to work the fields.
Implement Welfare reform. Want a check? Okay, you will receive that after participating in 8 hour shifts working for Mr. Farmer. Don’t show up, your check is cut by that amount. Mr. Farmer will work with the government to get his products to the market and the labor costs (Negotiated between Farmer and Government at the Benefit to the Farmer) will be sent to the Government.
No Transportation? Farmer will have a bus at the Projects at 6:15am sharp. Be on it.
We won’t cut your Welfare if you work. Don’t work, no check.
EBTs? Nope. No more. Free food will be distributed at location X once a month. Consisting of Powdered Milk, Cheese, Spam, Penut Butter, Butter, powdered Eggs.
NO MORE Bridge/EBT Cards to be abused.
If you are found to have sold free food for cash or bartered it for anything you will no longer be qualified for program.
50% would do it. The incentive would be to spend the money in the good old U.S.A.
A good plan to wait and see................
Even having Mexico pay for the wall means our products from Mexico will be more expensive. You see, Mexico will have to tax to get that money and that tax will need to be compensated in some way.
Get it?
Cost of wall = $15B
Lets say at today’s rates, financing it over 20 years cost $22B.
Mexico exports $295B to the US annually.
This is a little simplified, but a 0.4% tax on Mexican exports would pay for the wall...even if such a tax reduced exports by half, 1% tax would pay for it.
On the remittance side, around $25B a year is sent back...so a remittance tax would have to be 4.4%. I’m sure these remittances would go underground if taxed, so maybe it would have to be 10%. I wonder how much they’re already paying to wire transfers, etc. If illegal immigrants were replaced with legal guest workers, they may be able to use traditional bank accounts and skip the wire transfer fees...making their cost a wash.
Anyway, I think Trump is starting with very high numbers, so the final number looks smaller.
[I guess you prefer Americans not have any jobs so long as imports are cheap for you to buy things.]
Yeah, a lot of our countrymen think like that. Unless, of course, it comes their way suddenly / abruptly. Then the wailing begins.
I look forward to liberals who touted “4.8%” unemployment meeting reality. They will find absolutely no sympathy from me.
There is an easier way to make Mexico pay. Start deporting Mexican illegal aliens. The amount of money they send back to that country is a major part of their economy. We won’t have to feed, house, and care for millions of them who do receive handouts.
Straight outta Trump’s BEST SELLING playbook.
Make outrageous demands to get their attention. You can only go down from there.
Exactly. Mexico will pay by loss in export sales, while US gains with increased domestic sales and the taxes they will bring.
The ones we get here at our local Texas Kroger say Driscoll - Product of Mexico. Didn’t think to get the brand of the ones we bought in Arizona which were from California but they were wonderful. Agree that out of your own garden is/should taste better but...
May as well pay a little more (not that I believe that will be the end result) and get a big, shiny, wall in return.
It’s hard to determine the incidence of a tax. In the case of import duties, sales taxes, and the like; the cost of the tax is always split somehow between buyers and sellers. For instance, Mexico can’t “simply raise their prices” — they are in competition with U.S. producers, and those from other countries. Some Mexican producers will have to lower their prices (absorb some of the cost of the tax); others will drop out of the market. No one really knows the end result (although, you can be sure that government economists have already provided Trump with some estimates). My first-approximation guesstimate — the cost of the tax will fall 60:40 (60% paid by Mexican producers, 40% by American consumers).
China killed a lot of dogs
Answer: Because of pure greed manufactures will start to produce on this side of the border and pocket that money since the will charge the going rate. So greed is working for the US worker instead of against them.
But alas after a while, when all productions for fans and cars returns, they will have to compete with each other.
LOL! Good post, and true.
How do you know the Mexican producers won't lower their prices an equivalent amount in order to keep the prices of their goods competitive? If we put a tax of $1,000 on some Mexican products, and the producers lower their prices by $1,000 in order not to lose a sale, the US government will get the $1,000 and someone in Mexico will lose the same amount and the US consumer will not be affected.
That seems just as likely to happen as some blanket statement that the producers will never lower their prices and the US consumers will simply pay 20% more.
Illegal aliens cost the U. S. over $300 billion annually. We should never have acquiesced and continued to put up with this criminal action.
Furthermore stupid drug-addicted Americans bolster the evil Mexican narcotic industry which could grind to a halt if we treated drug salesmen like Singapore and the Philippines do: kill them!
What the drug salesrats do to our economy and the minds of our weak citizens is a crime that cries to Heaven for vengeance.
“I already pay more for everything, willingly. I will not buy anything manufactured or grown in Mexico or China.”
We do our best to do the same. We informally boycott Wal Mart because they’ve forced so many American factories to push production to China for ‘low prices’ and we decided that it isn’t worth enabling the enemy of our country in order to buy cheap, shoddy plastic crap from China.
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