take it out of mexcos welfare checkTime to take the money from national defense and build the wall.
If Mexico wants to continue to give us attitude then we can always repeat what we did from 1946 to 1848, i.e., take over Mexico through military conquest.
Finally someone in DC is standing up to and not caving in to a Mexican “leader”. Time for Nieto to start fixing that dump of a country on his own!
The sticking point was not directly about Mexico paying, it was about acknowledging Mexico’s position that it won’t. I think Trump is probably right to call it off because once you start publicly acknowledging the other side’s position you are halfway there to accommodating it.
a tax on money transfers wired out of the country by noncitizens would build a nice wall
They will pay for it, one way or another!
I prefer a tax on monetary transfers to Mexico, After all, it’s money from people who have stolen the jobs of Americans!
BTW: I love Mexican people and customs...I used to live in El Paso, I know these people, they are good people!
Given the corruption of Mexican government I don’t blame them for wanting to flee to the US.
take it out of mexcos welfare checkit would be paid for — in one way or another — by Mexico.
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I’m sure that there are varying ways to reduce the cash flow to
Mexico and thus they would be paying for the wall. Such items as
labors from Mexico sending their pay checks across the border.
Keep that money here and let the US citizens do the work and get
the payments.
A 10% tariff on everything coming in from Mexico would not only fund the construction of the wall, it would fund it’s maintenance and manning in perpetuity.
It would also like fund the incarceration charges of those who try to bypass it.
Toll Wall.
Deal with it.
Annual Trade deficit with Mexico = $50 Billion
Cost of building the Wall = $23 Billion
Annual trade deficit with China = $400 Billion
It does not take a genius to see that US has tremendous leverage to get Mexico to pay for the Wall and get China to pay for the infra-structure here.
Nieto is trying to manipulate Trump like Mexico did to Obama and other lefty-leaning presidents.
Trump brobably told him “don’t bother” if that was the subject of his visit, showing Nieto that trying to “schmooze” Trump doesn’t work.
Pena Nieto needs a media event to look good before Mexico’s election this year - Trump is driving a hard bargain, and keeping the leverage on the NAFTA/Trade talks underway.
Stop all money wired to Mexico and check all mail wall appears.
“if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” Barack Obama
“Mexico will pay for the wall” Donald Trump
Sorry, but seemingly true
since congress won’t pass an expenditure when does Mexico start paying?