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12th July 2017, 12:28 PM | #1 |
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Republicans want America to pay for the damn border wall, not Mexico!
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A brilliant Republican also mused that the border wall ought to be funded with money meant for family planning and food stamps:
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10 million jobs created to enforce immigration law! Amazing! While Obama cheated and lied about unemployment Trump is now going to create millions upon millions of jobs for American citizens to catch the illegal aliens flooding over the Mexican border thanks to Obama's negligence. Presumably the American tax payer can be reimbursed by harvesting the organs from the illegals. |
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12th July 2017, 01:30 PM | #2 |
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"by enforcing" not "to enforce". With fewer illegals, there'll be more jobs for Americans who will be happy to work at, or below, minimum wage because there are no food stamps.
Utter rubbish of course but I don't think he's suggesting 10 million more ICE agents. |
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12th July 2017, 03:15 PM | #4 |
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12th July 2017, 07:58 PM | #6 |
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I'm sure Mexico will pay us back later. Just send em a bill.
We won't need so much money for Planned Parenthood and Food Stamps once the wall is built!
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13th July 2017, 05:06 AM | #7 |
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Trump has already built a psychological wall. Border detentions are at a 17 year low.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national...on-under-trump Stopping the Illegal Drug trade over the Mexico border would be an easy way to make Mexico pay for the wall. We have seen recent crack downs by the Mexican government on drug cartels in the northern states. By stopping the drugs from coming over, we can stop 20 Billion dollars annually from crossing into Mexico. Paying for the wall does not necessarily mean writing a check to the US government. But it looks like stopping the drug trade will make a huge dent in the balance sheet. This does not even take into account the deaths and medical expenses from the shoddy Black Tar Heroin that Mexico is known for. |
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13th July 2017, 05:33 AM | #10 |
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10 million jobs for $1.6 billion is $160 per job.
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13th July 2017, 05:47 AM | #11 |
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13th July 2017, 05:58 AM | #12 |
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Again, let me correct what I think is a misunderstanding. I do not think Steve King is advocating that 10 million government jobs are created but rather that, because there are fewer illegal immigrants, there will 10 million more jobs for people who are in the U.S. legally.
IMO that's utter, utter rubbish but I it's different utter rubbish. |
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13th July 2017, 08:29 AM | #14 |
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"In other news, the Mexican Boat Builder's Association reported a large increase in demand.
Emperors Hadrian and the Ming Emperors wish America all the best." |
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13th July 2017, 12:52 PM | #15 |
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When he said, "Mexico will pay for it!" He was speaking metaphorically. They will pay for it in an abstract non linear sense of payment not dependent on actual payment.
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13th July 2017, 01:06 PM | #16 |
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Just because I haven't seen it in this thread ... I understood the idea Mexico would pay for the wall, would be by adding tariffs to goods imported from Mexico to the US ...
There's three hundred billion dollars of goods coming in from Mexico every year ... Spread out over say ... ten years ... its within the realm of possibility. |
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13th July 2017, 01:15 PM | #18 |
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It's diabolical.
Trump pays for the wall, so we (Taxpayers) pay for it up front. To get the money back into the treasury, Trump places a tariff on goods from Mexico, so we (taxpayers) pay it back to the treasury. What? There's all this money in the treasury, give the rich folks another tax break! See! American taxpayers didn't pay for the wall! We paid for it twice! |
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I suspect ladders, shovels dynamite will see a spike in demand too. None of the advocates of building a wall seem to be talking about how they plan to guard it. If it's not guarded, people will climb over it, dig under it, or knock holes in it; probably a combination of all three.
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