Posted on 06/14/2004 7:47:14 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
What's more, he's made a mortal enemy in his own district!
Looks like your boy is going to have a brown nose for a long time just to keep his seat. He can forget about any advancement within Congress. He'll never have a committee chairmanship.
This idiotic tax proposal probably just established him as m member of the lunatic fringe among Republican Congressmen. And then to not even know that the target of his idiocy is the largest employer in his district marks this clown as a real loser.
I'd vote for Tancredo. I wish a few more Republicans had a backbone like he has.
Dream ticket? Tancredo-Coulter. You pick the slot.
Unless you're in his congressional district, you'll never get to vote for him.
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Oh, its goofy, alright, I can't imagine being able to buy things on eBay from Canadians, then letting me use PayPal to pay them, and having my Canadian seller get five percent boosted away!
But on the other hand, I find it most curious that First Data/Western Union is the champion of the Mexican workers. Their fees are a pretty outrageous tax on all of us. I'd rather come up with a way of our government handling the transfer, but I guess we'd have to legalize them to do it.
What weirds me out is that a US corporation makes so much money being the "mules" for the bucks, rather than the illegal aliens.
Their fees are a payment for services rendered. Nobody holds a gun to the head of the illegals and makes them wire money home.
You and I pay nothing.
It's very easy to "have a spine",when you haved no power and no say in much of anything at all.
President Bush has a backbone made of steel.
You are having a nightmare;that's NO "dream ticket"...unless you enjoy dreaming about losing an election.
That's the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time. You think international transfers of funds is foreign aid? Do you have any knowledge at all of international commerce?
You still haven't answered my question as to which clause of the constitution mandates that 5% of funds transferred out of country must be confiscated by the government.
You're confusing sycophants with facts,I see. LOL
I, like most Americans, pay a 10% tax (sales tax) on money transfers to other people in this country.
One guy and a computer can track the transactions. Less bureaucraps than we have now. And your crack about Rats is "fighting words." Are you smoking crack??? Are you another "open borders" Bushite-pubbie?
The proposed tax applies to everyone and every company, not just out of status workers. It applies to churches sending money to missionaries, to consumers buying products from foreign companies, to parents sending money to their children serving in Iraq, to American manufacturers importing raw material, to gamblers betting on games over the internet, to grocery stores buying bananas from Panama, to vacationers paying for dinner with their American credit cards, etc...
I think I'll send FDR a copy of Title 8, US Code. Not that I expect anyone in our government to have sufficient spine or gonads to enforce it, though...
Well it seems this would be a good way to round up illegals. Have an INS agent at these places.
Well, it would have, but Tancredo spokesman, Carlos Espinosa, said "de nada"! "Basta"! "Finito"!
Especially after Tom and Carlos realized that the conduit of this money, First Data, was in their sandbox.
Don't be surprised if Tom tells FDR to go pack sand.
You and I pay nothing.
I guess I see them as part of the price we pay for the goods and services produced with that labor. Maybe not, maybe they are a tax on the stupidity of those who won't use banks.
I suppose that I should be glad that First Data/Western Union is not attempting to paint itself as the defenders of its customers, it just says that Tancredo was stupid to realize that he was messing with a business in his district.
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