Posted on 04/27/2013 4:16:05 PM PDT by bgill
An analysis of credit card receipts finds Mexican shoppers spent $150 million dollars in Hays County last year. Their shopping trips generated $12 million in sales tax revenue and jobs throughout the community. Juan Carlos is general manager of the Tanger Outlet Center in San Marcos. He says, "Traditionally we have seen a lot of Mexican national shoppers during appropriate seasons: Tres Reyes, Semana Santa. Those types of weeks are definitely big weeks for us."
San Marcos Mayor Daniel Guerrero says the visitors' spending spree extends beyond the outlet malls. He adds, "At the same time they get to stop by our restaurants, visit downtown, see all the beautiful natural features of San Marcos, our river, our green spaces, our university."
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San Antonio’s mayor’s mama is a big name in La Raza but apparently everyone is cool with that.
I thought Mexico was a poor hell-hole with desperate, starving masses just trying to feed their kids by getting into the U.S. NOPE. Try the 10th richest nation on Earth with 4.8% unemployment, hundreds of welfare programs, national healthcare, a fabulously wealthy state-owned monopoly on minerals and oil, and the world’s richest man, worth $72 billion, Carlos Slim Helu.
It's the Mexican equivalent of Aspen.
Rules! What rules?!
Assimilation. Right.
My friends who immigrated from Monterrey and Guadalajara who are assimilated and who are lovely, appreciative and who happen to be educated, are more disgusted than I.
Rubio is a way off on this and the founders are praying for us I hope.
I did write to Rubio ion his silly forum published today the one he put out for the purpose, most likely, of his being able to say he asked.
San Antonio is in trouble.
Check the license plates at the Galleria in Houston some time, lots of Mexican plates. These aren’t the people that are the problem
Exactly. I can see tourists going to SA to shop, but it sounds really weird to drive all the way up to San Marcos. Maybe it’s for the swimming pig.
“The difference is we weren’t DRUG CARTELS, ‘cause that’s the only people from Mexico who have any money!”
Don’t kid yourself. Mexico does indeed have a middle class and upper class that has nothing to do with drugs. I sometimes have to deal with Mexicans through work that are nothing like the stereotypical view of the country
What needs to happen here in Texas and across the US is a tax on money transfers to Mexico. If you go down to the local cam bio cheques casa, and transfer money to Mexico, you are taxed 50%. That is to cover the criminal immigrants that use our hospitals, schools, jails, etc.
I’m tired of financing Mexico retirement villas and the nonstop flood of criminal immigrants. Heck, maybe 75% export tax for money sent to Mexico!
LOL!
Years ago, I read on an article posted on FR that the largest income producing industry for Mexico was oil. The second was American dollars sent back.
I live a few miles from the San Marcos Outlet Malls in the winter. I’m about a 40 mile drive from San Antonio. I live just about as far from Detroit in the summer. This winter, I made more trips to San Antonio in 5 months than I’ve made to Detroit in 30 years. Those of you complaining about crime in San Antonio must not know how parts of the rest of the country have to live. I probably am somewhat sheltered in Texas, but I hear more “foreign” accents in Michigan than I do in San Marcos (”foreign” meaning proper English is a second language).
I responded to Rubio on the forum also. Person responsible for handling responses is probably the same one that wrote the bill he supports. I have also faxed letters to him, Ryan, Paul, Cornyn, Cruz, Olson, Weber, Boner, Mr. Senility himself McCain and several others and have called all their offices expressing my displeasure.
Remember the first time I went to the Riverwalk in San Antonio. Many years ago. I was really impressed. Men had to wear jackets to dinner. Last time we were there, we didn’t even stay. Too dirty and noisy. Still go to LaCantera to play golf and spend a weekend on occasion. Last time we were there, there were more people from India and Pakistan than Caucasians and only one person at the front desk had English as their first language. Starwood has gone totally Eastern and liberal including the choices of food. Not real sure we will go back.
Texas is so much on the tipping point that it is really frightening.
How much money is spent by US tourists in the UK? Maybe the UK should give all these Americans British citizenship? /sarc
Understood. I thought I was being humorous.
millions in.
billions out.
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