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[–] 17927353? 0 points 23 points 23 points (+23|-0) ago
This is a very fair tool in a currently weak arsenal to combat the massive illegal immigration the deep state is pushing against our constitutional Republic. This is a TAX. It is NOT total confiscation of the money sent to Mexico. There is no reason something can't be done to offset the destruction to our nation that illegal immigration is causing. The US has staggering debt and can't even properly care for our elderly and vets, but we pay for health care, education, housing and food stamps for illegals. A tax on remittances is very mild, but a good start.
[–] 17930213? 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
Ya make the tax work both ways, and it'll stop all the factory jobs from going south of the boarder too. Then the corporate traitors can't send the profits back to the home office in the US. Make them spend it where they make it, it's only fair to both sides. Stop the slave labor! We need to fix the boarder as much for the Patriot Mexicans as for us, we're in this together because WWG1WGA. Good neighbors don't enable bad behavior!
[–] 17942628? [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
When he threatened to shut the border they were all over it in 24 hours. Wait till he starts making moves to tax their remittances at some exorbitant rate. They will shit themselves.
[–] 17930494? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What happens if they'd rather use bitcoin than pay the tax on remittances?
[–] 17931583? 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
The price of bitcoin would go up.
[–] 17931675? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Or Monero or Haven. It still works in Trump's favour as it moves more money out of the control of the bankers.
[–] 17944362? ago
So many people are still unfamiliar with how to use Bitcoin. Taxing crypto will be an issue I'm sure the government will be addressing soon!
[–] 17927330? 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago
No matter what Trump does some shit bag judge will overturn it ! Have to finish cleaning up the court system before anything can be done , we can't even keep them from entering the country illegally how the fuck is he going to do this?
[–] 17932012? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
Maybe the time is right to establish a new doctrine, in 2019 or in 2020, where the Executive branch, with the Military, declares a ruling of the Federal Judiciary to be unconstitutional:
thus estabishing the doctrine of Federal Judicial accountability to the Constitution, by the duty and by the right of the US Military to defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
and to have the declarations of all such unconstutional rulings of the Courts, nullified and enforced by all measures necessary.
[–] 17929579? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Or quite accepting the doctrine of judicial review. Maybe SOTUS needs to have another look at Marbury v. Madison.
Marbury v. Madison, legal case in which, on February 24, 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court first declared an act of Congress unconstitutional, thus establishing the doctrine of judicial review.
[–] 17932896? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I believe the immigration laws President Trump refers to all the time are unconstitutional to Americans, our rights are guaranteed under the constitution, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but illegals are given all our benefits with no compensation to us and they also kill us. How is that life and pursuit of happiness?
[–] 17942637? [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm all for Martial Law myself.
[–] 17929229? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
30 billion dollars is not 30% of their GDP.
https://tradingeconomics.com/mexico/gdp
2018 GDP for Mexico was 1150 billion dollars.
[–] 17932758? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Or in other words slightly under 3%.
But a 3% hit to their GDP would be enormous.
The US could ban it, which would make much of it disappear and move the rest to illegitimate services, which could then sometimes be found and confiscated. Or it could be taxed; probably not more than a few percent, or that would also tend to drive it underground. It'd definitely help with paying for the wall though.
[–] 17934894? ago
3% GDP is a big hit, and probably a lot bigger of a hit for the central American countries which would be affected approx 15 billion total. More importantly it deincentivizes this behavior and makes it less profitable to exploit the USA as they have been for many decades.
[–] 17942506? [S] ago
Maybe this was confused....https://criminalsandliars.wordpress.com/2018/07/02/mexican-exports-to-the-united-states-comprise-30-of-its-entire-economy/
That would be a little less than 10%, but we could tax the shit out of the rest of their exports too. Either way, we have them by the balls if we want to use the leverage.
[–] 17942748? ago
Its ok, it's good news either way. Remittance payments should be heavily penalized, especially given the fact that Mexico is doing almost nothing to prevent the flow of Central Americans going through their country and nothing to aid in prevention of illegal migration to the USA. De-incentivization of one of the main reasons for these illegal immigrants coming here is a big step toward getting them gone. Reduces the influx pressure across the border and makes the job of our BP and ICE members easier. It's good policy. Mexico owes a lot to us. Living right next door to the biggest dog in the yard has its advantages and they'd be wise to not forget to count their blessings.
[–] 17928357? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Instead of wasting lives and treasure in the middle east why didnt we clean up Mexico? Wallstreet wanted cheap labor why go all the way to China and ship products all the way back not very green is it when we had Mexico to the south. Answer pass the Manechievitz
[–] 17929659? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Is that a cupboard fill with fine Mexico. Just don't sound as good.
[–] 17928495? 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
The answer is Israel. Israel needed the US to fracture the middle east because it makes it easier for them to subvert.
[–] 17942559? [S] ago
Its all about the shekels.
[–] 17929890? 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
annex mexico. oh you dont want to do that!? no colonial expansion! then shut the fuck up.
[–] 17930498? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Why? So we can have Puerto Rico 2.0?
[–] 17953385? ago
I was hoping to draw out a bleeding heart globalist who would tell me in their own words what kind of accounting is used to justify the transfer of production to China and the importation of millions of Latin Americans to the U.S. to escape poverty. Colonial expansion I think not I don't even want Taco Bell in this country so put your hair back in a bun and go feed your gerbils twinkle toes
[–] 17928313? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Please do this. This is such a good idea and will make a HUUUUUUUGE difference in many spheres of this issue.
[–] 17928305? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Amen! I was gonna run for president on this issue alone! Tax any wire transfer to Mexico with one free yearly, 1000.00 max. Anything else is taxed 40-60%
[–] 17938488? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Let’s remember what remittance payments are: Funds being sent out of our country by aliens, often illegal aliens who send a portion of the wages from their unauthorized employment back to their home countries, usually to support family.
Laudable as this may be from the context of personal and familial responsibility, Americans need to realize, first, that once the money has left our economy, it is gone forever; and second, that we're not talking about chump change, we're talking about tens of billions of dollars each year. The amount may actually be even more massive than the official numbers, because U.S. data collection on remittances has not been completely reliable.
In a one-step-removed sense, taxing remittances would in fact be a levy against the Mexican state since it relies so heavily on that money as a part of its annual economy.
For instance, in 2015 Mexico received more income from remittances, overwhelmingly from the United States, than it did from its oil revenues. From my perspective, the heavy reliance on remittances has permitted Mexican politicians and business leaders to sidestep many of the institutional changes needed to better life for ordinary Mexicans so that they don't have to think about the trek north to achieve financial stability.
But a tax on remittances would go much farther than just Mexico, because the dollar flow outward is like a global sunburst, hitting virtually every nation that contributes to our yearly inflow of migrants: they arrive, begin employment legally or otherwise, and the funds begin pouring out.
Jobs are often referred to as a primary magnet for aliens seeking to enter the United States illegally. If this is so, then certainly the ready ability to send remittances by wire transfer without official tax or penalty multiplies the strength of that magnet many times over.
Logic would dictate that the United States do whatever is necessary to impede the outflow of remittance money. Keeping the money in our economy will help rebuild it a core premise of the Trump administration - and render jobs in the United States at least somewhat less attractive to "unauthorized workers"
[–] 17940529? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
He said it in the campaign. So let it be written. So let it be done." Another campaign promise KEPT.