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Methinks that was on page 3 of the Supply & Demand primer in Econ 1.001
Any and all competitors to Mexico’s supply of goods into the US will now be able to increase prices 20% whilst maintaining market share.
Hence the wall’s cost will be borne by the US consumers, have no effect on Mexico and pass on a windfall 20% profit to other suppliers to the US.
Making America Great Again, right out of the gate.
It’s very bad taste.
Whips ?
It’s extraordinary how much capitalist libertarian America has morphed into Soviet communism under the threat of having people getting stuff they haven’t earned: the sour embittered ressentiment that fueled a thousand revolutions. Hating Aristos — Hating Welfare Queens.
Actually, America had a similar system in The Dust-Bowl Years, the wretchedly poor, deprived of material goods and forced to work in the fields for others. Zeks for Kapital.
It was one of the happiest times in human history for the monied exploiter.
Okay, so imposing a large anti-Mexico import tax would cost American consumers significantly.
And the consequent trade war would also cost us jobs related to the $212 billion worth of American exports to Mexico last year. Up from under $100 billion in U.S. exports to Mexico in 2003. Yes, exports to Mexico have been, according to Forbes pretty much the only trading partner that has been buying American in a big way.
Of course a trade war could crater the economy that demands those American products. Funny thing about what would likely happen then … the same doing fairly well Mexican economy that buys American also employs Mexican workers and the result of that has been a significant decrease in illegal immigration from Mexico from a peak in 2007 … crater that economy and “wall” notwithstanding illegal immigration will rise back up.
Ironic aint it?
In a literary sense it’s called ironic.
In a quantitative sense it’s called cause and effect.
I was thinking more along the lines of financial aid to people who are willing to move into rural areas, but you’re certainly free to advocate for whatever makes you happy.
'We will pay Big Bucks to get you to the Opportunity of a Lifetime: You **Too **Can Earn Less Than Minimum Wage !"
Trump’s administration is badly hampered in its efforts to convince the American people that they are living in a hell hole, by the fact that they are not living in a hell hole.
In order to justify doing all that they want to do, they badly need to, you know, make the USA a hell hole.
Hence we see their tireless and unceasing efforts both to increase illegal immigration across the Mexican border, and to provoke Muslim outrage over Administration mistreatment of Muslims. The Trump Administration will stop at nothing to create justification for the imposition of a police state.
How else is Donald going to stop people from saying mean things about him, such as that his Inauguration crowd wasn’t the largest in history? He can’t go on this way. He has GOT to get rid of that pesky Constitution with all its horrors (the First Amendment, the rule of law, and that stupid checks-and-balances stuff).
Trump needs masses of dangerous brown people swarming over the border and he needs Muslim people blowing up US targets and he needs them soon.
So what you’re saying is that Americans shouldn’t have to live or work like them filthy, pig Mexicans? Clearly, that would just be a horror. Just think of all those Mexican laborers who moved to the US for a couple decades, supported their whole family in Mexico, retired early, and lived happily for the rest of their life in always-sunny Mexico. THE HORROR!
Clearly, it would be a travesty to ask the same of Americans.
Clearly, it would be far better to institute a two-tiered citizenship status in our country. That worked out wonderfully the last time we did it!
Mexico might be willing to help fund the Texas border section, since it would keep gringos away from the river.
Yeah, American farmers, farming conglomerates and capitalists have done magnificently in ensuring the guest worker is treated exactly as they would their own families and making their stay something they will cherish forever, with sweet sweet memories of the merry life in the fields.
Farmworker Justice
National Farm Worker Ministry:
Children
Housing
Low Wages
Health and Safety
$500 a week rent for a trailer is a little excessive; but check out the kid born without limbs, as a gift from the pesticide industry, Rad !
