Posted on 01/28/2017 8:37:37 PM PST by SJackson
It was a claim that President Donald Trump repeated on the campaign trail: that he would build a wall and that the Mexicans would pay for it. In his first few days in office, Trump appeared to make good on one portion of that promise, by signing an executive order for the planning and building of that wall to proceed.
But the cost for that wall will temporarily be borne by Americans, Trump said, and Mexico’s government insists it will not pay for the construction on the border. On Thursday, President Donald Trump floated a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico which suggested that until Trump’s promised reimbursement from the Mexicans materializes, Americans would pay for the border wall with their pocketbooks.
The White House clarified afterwards that Trump’s suggestion was an option rather than an official proposal, but social media users quickly questioned the possible uptick in one particular grocery item: avocados, of which 80 percent come from
America’s southern neighbor. Though the price of the guacamole’s main ingredient varies from market to market, the creamy green fruit usually costs a few dollars. Assuming a $3 cost, a 20 percent tax would increase the price to $3.60.
Takis, a common packaged food snack, would go from $6 to $7.20, the Washington Post reported. Other staples like tomato paste would also see only a slight markup, from about $1.20 to $1.44.
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Isn’t guacamole a mexican dish?
Chips are easy to make at home.
What grain, fruit or vegetable cannot be grown in America?
I can’t think of one.
I saw a Presidential tracking poll during the Bush administration that found a 100% correlation between Bush's favorability on the economy and the price of guacamole. Or was it gasoline...
“What grain, fruit or vegetable cannot be grown in America?
I can’t think of one.”
Bananas, but they don’t come from Mexico anyway. I’ve got a banana tree growing in my greenhouse, anxious to see how it does.
>> Star Telegram, ELIZABETH KOH
Women...
I’ll accept a 10% grocery increase if it saves me 60% on the related economic costs of incubating illegal inhabitants.
So the redoubtable WaPo can have its cake and eat it, too:
Headline #1: Tax on Mexican Vegetables to be Born by Americans in Grocery Stores...
Headline #2: ... Illegals to be Hardest Hit.
A tax on imported goods is a tax on US taxpayers. I would rather see a heavy tax on remittances to Mexico. That is money taken out of our economy, much of it through illegal labor, and put into the Mexican economy.
There’s a huge tomato processing plant just 20 minutes from my house here in central Hoosierland.
Red Gold.
Excellent salsa and catsup and other canned ‘mater products.
Will this affect Taco Bell?
Didn’t think so.
A 10% decline in the peso vs. the dollar cuts a 20% tax effectively to 18%. Which is not “half.”
This is what I don’t understand. What is it that Mexico produces that we so desperately need?
Negra Modelo’s tambien!
I would rather see a heavy tax on remittances to Mexico.
Good luck getting that through Congress. Not going to happen.
A tariff is not a tax at retail, but wholesale. Fruit and veggies have huge mark-ups. It's more likely the item cost $1 wholesale, which means the cost goes up .20.
We only get organic fruits and vegetables produced in America..Mexico can keep their crap there is nothing from them that I want
Mexican food is vile anyway. - always looks post-digested or regurgitated.
Stoop labor and cool soap operas apparently.
A fair amount of produce
I also try not to eat anything from Mexico, considering the filthy personal hygiene of the agricultural workers. And the fact that they use human waste for fertilizer. However, virtually all blackberries I'm seeing in markets now come from Mexico. Don't know why. Commercially made guacamole also seems to be made exclusively in Mexico. Why can't we make it here?
Guacamole SUCKS!
Now Guasacaca! That's some good eatin'.
Not everywhere in California.
Morro Valley (along State Highway 41 near the coast, and near to Morro Bay) has the Northernmost orchards of any size ---that I know of.
There could more, possibly some avocados as far North as Carmel Valley, a little around Salinas possibly(?) on the seaward lands, and maybe in a few micro-climate pockets here and there North to Sonoma County (at best) but past Carmel Valley would be increasingly dicey, wherever the trees could be subject to frost. Morro Valley (further south than those places just listed) gets periodic frosts. I have acquaintances there who own avocado orchards.
Down South (California) the best orchards were near to and inland of San Diego. Ventura-Santa Barbara coast had (likely still has) more than a few sizable orchards...and I think the valley that runs from Oxnard over to I-5 has avocados.
Central Valley? Forget it. There may not be frost every year, but often enough that one would have to be cutting back to stumps far too often. Most of the San Joaquin-- similar problem, though not as acute.
Texas has too much frost. What's left? Florida? I don't think they grow much of the Hass variety (I could be wrong, and who knows? maybe that could change? -- but I seem to recall encountering online discussion of this issue among Florida growers with the consensus seeming to be that those who were already growing the Florida varietals would continue with what was working in their own locale, already -- meaning-- nobody much was moving towards growing Hass and varieties more similar to Hass than to the Florida types).
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