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2016-11-10 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexico reaches out to Trump, but won’t pay for wall

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Posted by Fred 2016-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I wonder if the payment might not arrive as increased import tariffs. I'm planting avocados and agave cactus.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-11-10 02:36|| 2016-11-10 02:36|| Front Page Top

#2 ... yet.

Posted by Clunter Grumble6332 2016-11-10 03:10|| 2016-11-10 03:10|| Front Page Top

#3 A 15 to 20 percent tax on all remunerations sent back to Mexico. That ought to get a nice wall built.

Posted by Omomort Cheager7040 2016-11-10 05:54|| 2016-11-10 05:54|| Front Page Top

Smallish fee los transferenado ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-10 06:30|| 2016-11-10 06:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Millions of dollars would be collected if a ten dollar tax were required to enter the USA from Mexico.

Posted by Craique the Kid6652 2016-11-10 06:54|| 2016-11-10 06:54|| Front Page Top

#6 ...not a tax, but a 'regulatory fee'. The Executive doesn't have to ask Congress for such fees as demonstrated by Mr. Gore and phone charges to fund his little 'wire the schools' program back in the 90s.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-11-10 07:25|| 2016-11-10 07:25|| Front Page Top

#7 The above suggestions (and possibly more to come) might indicate funding for the wall has now been located.

Shovel Ready ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-10 07:40|| 2016-11-10 07:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I think their stated "refusal to pay for his planned border wall" is their opening position. A way will be found. No real need to rub their noses in this, we just want to modify their behavior. That means hitting them in their pocketbook whenever necessary. It will result in nice revenue streams and a reduced stream of illegals, especially if they are 'taxed' by the head for all the illegals in the country. And taxed again, and again, say every 4 months. Their behavior will change. At the moment, the Mex govt. is using the US as their population dump and views the US govt. with contempt. This will change.

Major upside: the UN will have a cow.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-11-10 08:05|| 2016-11-10 08:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Major upside: the UN will have a cow.
Posted by Whiskey Mike

Stillbirth hopefully.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-10 08:07|| 2016-11-10 08:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Major upside: the UN will have a cow.

An elephant cow or a blue whale cow?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-10 08:27|| 2016-11-10 08:27|| Front Page Top

#11 A cow of momentous proportion at least.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-11-10 08:31|| 2016-11-10 08:31|| Front Page Top

#12 I believe our Southern neighbor will soon recognize the fallacy of this challenge to one of Mr. Trumps central positions. Or DJT will sell out (doubtful).

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-11-10 08:37|| 2016-11-10 08:37|| Front Page Top

#13 A 15 to 20 percent tax on all remunerations sent back to Mexico. That ought to get a nice wall built.

That level of tax is about right - high enough to raise serious $ but not enough to cause the remitters to send it in other forms.

Posted by Raj 2016-11-10 10:11|| 2016-11-10 10:11|| Front Page Top

#14 #13 Such a charge would lead Latinos to use Somali Hawaldars to move their money through un-jofficial means. This is how the Somalis, Paks, and India muslims in the USA move money to their homeland. An "impuesto" of ten bucks each time someone enters the USA would be faster and easier to collect. If you want an education, some day go to a border crossing into the USA and see the hundreds of people lined up waiting to cross.

Posted by Craique the Kid6652 2016-11-10 11:54|| 2016-11-10 11:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Trump is an experienced real estate developer, so he knows how to handle this: contract Mexico to build the wall, and when they finish, we declare bankruptcy, and stiff them. Easy peasy.

Posted by regular joe 2016-11-10 13:08|| 2016-11-10 13:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Trump should institute a Work Visa program.
(1) So we can keep track of who is in the US
(2) So we can ensure that these aren't somehow forced to do things that our own environmental and safety laws have deemed to be unsafe
(3) To ensure these workers are paid minimum wage which we have determined is the minimum required in the each state.
(4) Harsh penalties for anyone hiring undocumented workers without a visa because we can only assume their intentions are to abuse labor in a way that we all find unacceptable.
(5) Give the the work visas out like candy but insist the people contact an agency every month or so to verify employment and arrest for x weeks, deportation, and refusal to ever get a work visa again for anyone caught without one. Anyone who commits a crime while on a work visa will (a) suffer in jail for that crime, then be deported, and if they return it will be considered a felony.

This would be hard for the left to argue against since it exploits the safety laws and minimum wage laws they are always pushing for.

Don't even discuss citizenship except perhaps as phase 2 of the plan depending upon how phase 1 works out.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-11-10 14:33|| 2016-11-10 14:33|| Front Page Top

#17 Major upside: the UN will have a cow.

Mmmm, rib-eye.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-11-10 17:47|| 2016-11-10 17:47|| Front Page Top

#18 A cow of momentous proportion at least.

It'll be UUUuuuuuge!

Posted by Crusader 2016-11-10 18:06|| 2016-11-10 18:06|| Front Page Top

#19 RJ, my guess is a work visa somewhat like that already exists, at least 1 - 3.

Posted by KBK 2016-11-10 23:09|| 2016-11-10 23:09|| Front Page Top

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