Sorry, but from this, it’s clear you have no idea how tariffs actually work.
If you’re applying a new tax to goods imported from Mexico, it isn’t the Mexicans who will be paying that money, it will be the US consumers paying it, in the form of higher prices.
If you’re applying a tax to goods exported to Mexico, then, yes, the Mexicans will be paying - so long as they can’t find the same item for less from a non-US source. In trying to make Mexico pay for it, you’re putting the US suppliers at a disadvantage compared to their competitors.
I look at any sort of tax as a tax on an economic activity, not necessarily attributable to either party in the transaction, whether it be employment or sales. So both Mexicans and Americans will be paying for both sorts of tariffs. And even if you look at it with economic orthodoxy, it could still be the case as the increased prices could cause fewer items to be purchased from the producer.
I have not seen a fact-based source that says otherwise. Unfortunately, people who use the dog-whistle term ‘illegals’ seriously rely on propaganda instead of data.
It doesn’t matter to the proles. All they want to hear is that a ‘tariff’ (translation: ‘fine’, ‘something bad’) is being applied to Mexico (translation: the Bad People). That such an act may very well cost them their own jobs (as Trump voters along the border are now worrying) does not occur to them (until it’s too late – see previous parenthetical). They lack the ability to forecast the outcomes of their actions past the immediate result.
Sure 5% tariffs, or you pay for the wall. Either way is fine. USA consumers can choose to buy whichever good they wish. If the Mexican good cost 5% more so what.
The rest of the world has tariffs and restrictions on our imports in general.
Do you really want to see how much it costs USA states to support illegal immigration?
Holy guacamole. Mexico owes US creditors like it owes many creditors. These creditors freely bought Mexican bonds and will be paid back under the terms of the bonds. The US owes money to Chinese investors. Does that mean that China should have influence on US policy? Putting a tariff on Mexican goods means that Americans will pay those tariffs.
Last point first: Illegal immigrants contribute more to the U.S. economy than they take. Illegal immigrants means more money for the U.S.
Tariffs. Go back and read what Horatio wrote. If the U.S. slaps a tariff on Mexican imports, then Mexico will slap a tariff on U.S. imports. U.S. goods will be more expensive, so Mexicans will buy them elsewhere. Right now, agricultural products from New Zealand (I don’t remember which ones – it was either dairy, corn, and/or wheat) cost a little bit more that the U.S. commodities. With the tariff Mexico will surely impose if Trump imposes one on them, the New Zealand goods will be cheaper. So Mexicans will stop buying them from the U.S. Can you tell me how destroying U.S. exports is a good thing?
Oh, as for ‘Mexico will pay for the wall’, they won’t. This is one of Trump’s many lies. His scheme is to get Congress to provide the funds. That is, U.S. taxpayers will pay for the wall. Then he will ‘force’ Mexico to pay for it. But the only weapon he has to use against Mexico is a tariff, which, as I’ve pointed out, will devastate American farmers. Produce will be more expensive. So Americans still pay for the wall through higher food bills.
The upside is that once the American farmers are driven into bankruptcy, the Republican elites can buy their properties for a song, and become very, very rich – and the American taxpayers will pay for it! Yay!
No, I think the three level system holds up. Even with his enemies, Trump seems to view them from how they relate to him. He defines enemies by their opposition to him not by any abstract opposition.
Six month ago, Trump’s bitterest enemy was Hillary Clinton. But once he won the election, he dropped it. He didn’t care about Clinton anymore. She had been useful to him as an enemy (and he probably did hate her during that time) but once he won, she didn’t matter.
This is classical narcissism. The evidence is that Trump sees all of existence as the story of Donald Trump. He, of course, is the protagonist. Other people fit in to the story based on how they relate to him. For him or against him, they’re just characters in his story. He doesn’t see them as having a story of their own.
Again, I disagree. Trump has Putin in category 2: Trump thinks he’s using Putin.
I never said Trump’s vision of the universe was built on a foundation of intelligence.
They pay FICA taxes for services they will never get. Illegal immigrants using false IDs aren’t going to get social security or medicare when they retire.
At the risk of continuing a hijack, I disagree. Trump has been gesturing wildly at Hillary Clinton whenever he feels the need to distract from his embarrassment of an administration. That does still prove your point, though: Clinton is trotted out as a useful decoy whenever Trump feels it necessary.
1 ) Source please and be sure to add in the costs of social services, welfare, schools, hospitals, prisons, and other resources that they use.
2 ) Why should an illegal take a USA workers job? Please explain. New Zealand good would cost a lot just to get to our shores. Just saying…
3 ) There are many nations that export. Like I said Mexico owes us 8 Billion, we gave them over 300 million in federal aid last year, and 80% of their exports go to the USA.
Do you really think Mexico won’t work with Trump on building the wall?
