Posted on 01/29/2017 5:58:30 AM PST by detective
That’s a hell of a good point there.
I refer to the Walmart model of driving wholesale prices down so Walmart can sell to the public at “the lowest price always”. How much more money is involved in non-durable goods consumerism than your appliances and automobiles? Making manufacturing, food processing and packaging nearly as expensive overseas as it is domestically should be the KO punch needed against Chinese, Mexican, et al cheap labor not worth the hassle to the middle man.
Middle men will take what the market will bear. And that is capitalism. Watch what happens when manufacturing is returned to the US. The tariffs cut into the middle man’s profit margin as he must keep the price of the product he moves competitive in the free market.
But what do I know!?! I just fix motorcycles and shoot coyotes.
“Once the wall is in place, there won’t be 150,000 migrants on the other side of the wall. They will know that they can’t get into the US, so they will stay out of Mexico as well and start looking for another country that is stupid enough to let them in. I wish them luck!”
I concur. There is no card for them to play there. This article is hogwash. Mexico will do what it takes to cling to what they can glean from a round at the table with Trump. He will make it so they can still win, but not rob.
The wall just got 10 feet higher!
This is a fight.
This is a war.
However, this isn't America vs Mexico.
It is Conservative vs Liberal.
There can only be one winner!
There can only be one winner!
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing, or all the other.
The concept of slavery is different this time around.
Start looking at expanding agriculture around Yuma, Arizona east of the California Imperial Valley. If more could be applied to areas near Yuma that is a start. Retaining the Imperial valley to San Diego stretch of land as a strategic point of access to the pacific ocean; and, a buffer between the border wall with Mexico and occupied Californio is a no brainer.
The California lions share of the Colorado water allocations were gained through the political wrangling by the city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles has a whole ocean to process by reverse osmosis for it’s potable use. All it lacks is the will to invest in a water supply which it doesn’t have to swipe from a region nearly two hundred miles from the city.
Easy solution, we give Mexico 60 million a year in foreign aid. Withhold all aid until the wall is paid for.
Right but you mentioned it so I asked because I didn’t hear Trump say that
Mexico is against the ropes and unable to perform the “rope-a-dope”....
Globalists are always on the side against America and Americans. I’m sick of it.
The Border Patrol should receive authorization to fire upon Mexican cartel drug mules caught on US soil.
If the `rats trying to poison us fire back, bring in the military to back them up.
Bad plan, a very bad plan. It does not account for human nature.
If remittances are taxed heavily, illegals working in the US will find another method of sending money to Mexico. The drug cartels are already organized and are adept at getting money illegally out of the US and into Mexico. (How else would they pay for the drugs and their profits?) With very little effort they could easily expand into a shadow banking/money transfer system, making enormous profits by undercutting the official tax rate.
Do you really want to add to the power and reach of the drug cartels? And, the answer is not "more law enforcement". We have tried that and it has failed.
The answer is a very modest tax on remittances, something in the 2 to 5% range. Low enough that the certainty and convenience of a legal transfer is worth the cost, and too low to be attractive to the cartels.
Remittances to Mexico are in the $20-40 billion per year range. 5% of this pays for a wall in 5 to 10 years. Remittances to the rest of Latin America are about equal to those to Mexico. Taxing them also would reduce the wall payback time to 2.5 to 5 years.
A line of reasoning I have not seen used yet is that a wall in the US actually improves Mexican security on their Southern border by reducing the number of people who try to migrate through Mexico.
They can stop shipping drugs here. They can stop sending us unskilled laborers who steal American jobs and live on welfare. The can stop sending us their panther piss beer - what else can they do? Mexico can G F Itself. Any questions?
Any country who has an 80% export dependency with one country has no punch at all.
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