A friend of mine had the idea (not sure if it was originally his) to have a program where people pay for “bricks” that have your name or any phrase imprinted on it.
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We have the means though if congress will get off of their asses and pass a simple law to build, maintain, and patrol it at no cost to the taxpayers at all.
Just tax the remittances and use the proceeds from whatever tariffs we have on goods produced in Mexico, CA, and SA.
In fact we could pay for all of that along with the necessary expansion of immigration courts to deal with the illegals already here without digging into the Taxpayers’s pockets for a dime of it.
If it were being built out of Bricks that would be a neat idea. I’ve seen similar projects on college campuses, hospitals, and churches where they have done that.
Yes, that is why I put bricks in quotation marks. I’m sure something along those lines could be created?
They’re more socialist than us…and yet all we hear are cries that this country is too socialist already.
And? … .
Obviously countries that are more socialist than ours “work”…so the cries of fear from the right that we are turning into Venezuela are ridiculous and unfounded.
Yeah…taxes in remittances and increased tariffs have no exonimic costs at all.
They’re like MAGIC!
Damn this no edit button.
Cite even one post where I have said we’re turning into VZ.
Maybe I ain’t as smart as you. Can you show me specifically where he is endorsing cartel activity?
The taxes on those remittances would have an economic cost in their home countries, not here.
The economic costs of illegal immigration far exceed whatever damage could be done by collecting tariffs on goods imported from those states unless they were absolutely insanely high.
If they were high enough to drive down imports from those countries, that would then create more job opportunities in the US as well along with of course the steady upward increase in wages and benefits that would come from cutting off to the greatest extent the inflow of illegal labor that of course depresses wages and benefits.
He seems to have a very friendly relationship with the Sinaloa Cartel.
Yes, we can check Western Union’s citizenship database. Genius.
Did I say YOU said that?
Right- because as we’ve seen these past few weeks, the US is immune to the effects rippling through the global economy due to Trump wanting to set off trade wars as a negotiating tactic…
Western Union can be required to contact ICE or the DOS and access their databases, “Genius”.
You directed it to me did you not?
You realize do you not that we already have tariffs in place on imports from a host of countries and did so long before Trump ever took office?
Yeah, what do you think the turnaround time on that would be? Takes about ten minutes now. Three days? Five? A week?
This is of course ignoring the fact that things like PayPal and Venmo exist, or money transfers to off the shelf debit cards or any of a dozen other ways to shift money.
Genius.
