Posted on 03/03/2016 8:27:58 AM PST by GilGil
Trump, the New York billionaire developer and former reality television star, sparked outrage in Mexico when he vowed to force Latin America's second largest economy to pay for a wall along the southern U.S. border to stem the flow of illegal immigration and drugs.
In a televised interview late on Wednesday, Finance Minister Luis Videgaray categorically rejected the proposal.
"Under no circumstance will Mexico pay for the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing," he said. "Building a wall between Mexico and the United States is a terrible idea. It is an idea based on ignorance and has no foundation in the reality of North American integration."
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Secondly notice at the end of this excerpt that he says:" has no foundation in the reality of North American integration."
Is this the plan all along? There is no border enforcement because the plan is to integrate Mexico and the US and a wall would mess that all up. Is that what they are trying to sneak up on us?
A 10% fee on Western Union wire transfers to Mexico should do the trick.
Called NAU. North American Union. All part of the Global World Order.
he’s not going to ask them.
All he needs to do is put a 2.5% tax on Western Union Fees and it would be paid for within 8 years.
I just hope we use American labor to build it. Now low bidder crap.
When push comes to shove, this little bureaucrat won’t have much of a voice in it....
He can also cut the trade imbalance by half and he would pay it in 1 year.
“A 10% fee on Western Union wire transfers to Mexico should do the trick.”
It has to include ALL transfers somehow, or the illegals will quit W Union over night.
10 foot higher.
Of course and it has been that plan for quite some time.Lots of natural resources in Mexico.
This stuff is all electronic these days, I believe, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to monitor.
Jes jew wheel!
They won’t write a check. We get it. That doesn’t mean their bank account won’t be decreased by the amount of the wall while the US account has a similar increase.
And, while not writing a check for the wall itself, they may be willing to pony up some pesos for the big door Trump plans to put in it. And the builder, who has a monopoly on this business, may decide there’s a YUGE markup on materials and labor for the door.
Be it 10% or 2.5% all Trump is saying he’ll do is impose the fee on remittances from illegal wages. How will he be able to tell illegal wages from legal ones? Will every grocery store in the U.S. be forced to check proof of citizenship of every person trying to wire money?
Won’t take long without even taxing Corona:
Top 10 US Imports from Mexico
Mexico’s exports to the US amounted to $297.5 billion or 12.9% of its overall imports.
1. Vehicles: $74.9 billion
2. Electronic equipment: $62.9 billion
3. Machinery: $49 billion
4. Oil: $14 billion
5. Medical, technical equipment: $12.2 billion
6. Furniture, lighting, signs: $10.8 billion
7. Vegetables: $5.5 billion
8. Fruits, nuts: $5.4 billion
9. Gems, precious metals: $5.1 billion
10. Plastics: $4.8 billion
Look at this list and ask yourself, how many of these things would we will be willing to pay a little more for if it meant a job for a fellow American?
This stuff is all electronic these days, I believe, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to monitor.
So people who are here legally or U.S. citizens with relatives in Mexico will be forced to pay an additional tax on their transactions? Be sure to make that clear ahead of time; it'll do wonders for attracting the Hispanic vote. </sarcasm>
Better to put a 10% tax on transfers and pay for the wall as it is built. No need to stretch it out over so many years. Make them pay for their arrogance and tax the hell out of American companies who go elsewhere with American Money and build up another country’s economy instead of our own. Whatever happened to AMERICA FIRST?
You wouldn't have to pay more. The price doesn't go down when they out source production to Mexico so logically why would the repatriation of production cause the price to go up?
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