Taxing imports from Mexico to pay for the wall?

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  • Emperor

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    Someone explain how adding a tax on items from Mexico makes Mexico pay for anything. I don't get this one.

    Mexican producers, growers, financiers, bankers, drug cartels, etc. won't be making 20% more on their **** just because they are Mexicans! So what if Americans have to pay the tariff on our side? We at least now have the "choice" to pay for the tax! If a Mexican tomato cost 20% more before it arrives here, then maybe American growers can offer American grown tomatoes to consumers more readily and more competitively!

    To me, as long as the tariff money is actually collected and deposited in the bank with the endorsement on the checks by "Wall Builders, Inc" I am all for it! Do you guys realize that most tariffs in place now don't work because the money is actually stolen by f**king shitbag politicians? I would cite Chinese crawfish meat as the poster example. And that is just a small example!

    Any country that maintains a $56 billion dollar trade deficit over the US is a welfare state! F**k them!

    PS: I suppose I should also lay the blame where it belongs; the scumbag shitbag politicians that set these trade parameters.
     
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    Mexican producers, growers, financiers, bankers, drug cartels, etc. won't be making 20% more on their **** just because they are Mexicans! So what if Americans have to pay the tariff on our side? We at least now have the "choice" to pay for the tax! If a Mexican tomato cost 20% more before it arrives here, then maybe American growers can offer American grown tomatoes to consumers more readily and more competitively!

    To me, as long as the tariff money is actually collected and deposited in the bank with the endorsement on the checks by "Wall Builders, Inc" I am all for it! Do you guys realize that most tariffs in place now don't work because the money is actually stolen by f**king shitbag politicians? I would cite Chinese crawfish meat as the poster example. And that is just a small example!

    Any country that maintains a $56 billion dollar trade deficit over the US is a welfare state! F**k them!

    PS: I suppose I should also lay the blame where it belongs; the scumbag shitbag politicians that set these trade parameters.


    It couldn't have been said better!
     

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    Someone explain how adding a tax on items from Mexico makes Mexico pay for anything. I don't get this one.

    There's not much to get, either way Americans pay under this plan.

    Mexican goods are taxed, those costs are pushed down to American Consumers, the goods sell successfully and thus Americans funded the wall.

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    Mexican goods are taxed, those costs are pushed down to American Consumers, the goods don't sell and thus Americans fund the wall b/c the govts plan for resources never pans out and we are stuck with the bill since we built the wall with our tax dollars.

    Mexican producers, growers, financiers, bankers, drug cartels, etc. won't be making 20% more on their **** just because they are Mexicans! So what if Americans have to pay the tariff on our side? We at least now have the "choice" to pay for the tax! If a Mexican tomato cost 20% more before it arrives here, then maybe American growers can offer American grown tomatoes to consumers more readily and more competitively!

    And if the mexican goods do not sell, then that really blows a hole in the idea that mexico pays for the wall! They can't pay for it if the goods don't sell...and whether we are given the choice or not seems to be "moving the goal post" so to speak. The campaign promise was never: As your president, I pledge to give Americans the choice of funding the wall or not.
     

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    It does appear that Trump could be using this "plan" as a leverage tool against Mexico....so it's not set in stone or anything that this will become reality.
     

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    another component to the wall that i've been reading is that it's very likely that the govt will have to use eminent domain at some point(s) to get a wall built....I'm not sure that's something I can get behind.
     

    John_

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    There's not much to get, either way Americans pay under this plan.

    Mexican goods are taxed, those costs are pushed down to American Consumers, the goods sell successfully and thus Americans funded the wall.

    or

    Mexican goods are taxed, those costs are pushed down to American Consumers, the goods don't sell and thus Americans fund the wall b/c the govts plan for resources never pans out and we are stuck with the bill since we built the wall with our tax dollars.



    And if the mexican goods do not sell, then that really blows a hole in the idea that mexico pays for the wall! They can't pay for it if the goods don't sell...and whether we are given the choice or not seems to be "moving the goal post" so to speak. The campaign promise was never: As your president, I pledge to give Americans the choice of funding the wall or not.

    Sli, you just make too much sense here. Too bad more cannot grasp it.
    Anyways if we build a great wall, the mexicans/illegals/coyotes will build taller ladders. Or blast a hole in it, or tunnel under it. Either way you still have to monitor 1900 miles of border for breaches and illegal crossings. Better to spend monies on strengthening/adding to the existing fencing, policing the border, more Border Patrol agents, tougher deportation laws and enforcement, and terminate American sanctuary cities or the philosophy of harboring illegals. There are legal procedures/pathways to citizenship, and reasons why we control immigration.

    Currently only 700 miles of that 1900 mile border has fencing of some sort.
     

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    Who do y'all think are going to pay for the wall? Put a tarrif on Mexico
    And if Mexican goods become to costly then BUY AMERICAN. It amazes me
    How people want the wall but then complain that we might have to pay
    For the wall.
     

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    I don't have the numbers to prove it, but I think that more than enough money can be found to pay for a wall, along with more monitoring and enforcement, by cutting or dissolving some of the wasteful government agencies that we now have.
     
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    JustinB

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    Tax all the money being sent to Mexico through western union and cut off aid.

    People will donate to fund it. Wouldn't be nearly enough to fund it entirely but the wall is basically a one time expense. I guarantee you if he sold a "Trump brick" on his website they would have tens of millions from that alone.

    He wrote the art of the deal people. He's getting them to pay one way or another. :)
     

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    Here's a thought. Let's take the quarter billion dollars Obama tried to underhand to Palestine in his last few days and use that as a down payment on the wall. The rest can easily be found by defunding all those "shrimp on a treadmill" studies, "fecal art" humanities grants, and who knows what else we don't even know about. Hey - problem solved.
     

    John_

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    Who do y'all think are going to pay for the wall? Put a tarrif on Mexico
    And if Mexican goods become to costly then BUY AMERICAN. It amazes me
    How people want the wall but then complain that we might have to pay
    For the wall.

    Yeah but Trump flat out stated Mexico was going to pay for the great wall pre election and after. I'll give him some time to perform, we shall see.
    You know, just like he said he was going to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton if he was elected POTUS.
     

    Vermiform

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    Yeah but Trump flat out stated Mexico was going to pay for the great wall pre election and after. I'll give him some time to perform, we shall see.
    You know, just like he said he was going to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton if he was elected POTUS.

    All I care about are the SC Justices. The rest is just lagniappe..........
     

    general mills

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    Yeah but Trump flat out stated Mexico was going to pay for the great wall pre election and after. .

    He did say they would pay for the wall. He didn't say they would finance it. If they lose business over the tariff and that business goes to America, then they will be paying for it.

    I all seriousness, I'm just glad he appears to be sticking to the better portion of his campaign promises.
     
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    general mills

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    I think of it this way, this president starts off by maybe using tax money to build a wall to curb illegal aliens. Our last president started off using tax money to buy a bunch of old cars and destroying them. So far, I can't find much to complain about.
     
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    Coastie Paul

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    "A trade deficit of $60 billion/yr. A Mexican economy with 80% export dependency to the U.S.; and $25 billion in transactional U.S. to Mexico remittances subsidizing it’s citizenry.

    It’s not even a question that President Trump holds all the leverage..."

    I like the analysis done by The Conservative Treehouse.
    https://theconservativetreehouse.co...ident-nieto-hour-long-phone-call/#more-127750

    If you haven't seen their stuff on the Trayvon Martin shooting and Benghazi,
    Check it out.
     

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