THE Wall

[furrowtickler]

The Speaker of the house ... ole Nancy P herself has protective walls and very high around several of her expensive vast estates ..... I wonder what for ?? To keep gophers out ?
Not sure why she has such elaborate security walls if they don’t keep out bad guys and enhance security as the Dems claim . Maybe in an act of solidarity with illegal migrants they can tear down the walls and security on their own property.
Do as they say , not as they do ...

[foragefarmer]

The GOP controlled the House,Senate and POTUS and wall funding was no where to be found. The main reason was many of the Republicans in Senate and House who represented border states thought it was a bat shit crazy idea and wouldn't solve nothing. They didn't want the bill put forward plain and simple.

So for all you supporters of Trump and wanting to move children to the USA for a better future, go ahead and blame the DEMs for this screw up. You should stop idle talking and start packing.

Besides, Trump doesn't believe in paying people who work for him, so this government shut down is right up his alley. As well as running the USA deficit to $799 BILLION in 2018, up 17% from the year before shows Trump will bankrupt the USA as well.

[15444]

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Trump can pay for the wall in a year by taxing illegal remittances back to mexico. Yes believe it or not, illegals cross the border, find some work and the remit the money out of the country to the tune of billions. US is directly subsidizing Mexico and it still doesnt stop people from coming.

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LOL If the US cannot even stop illegals from working and getting paid when they are in the US, how in the hell do you think they will tax the flow of cash illegals send back to family in Mexico. The US can't prevent US citizens from cheating the tax man and you think they will be able to tax black market labor proceeds shipped out of country. Give me a break.

As stupid as the grand plan some are putting forward of a $100.00 head tax for entry from Mexico. Sure, you could introduce such a tax. In fact, such taxes are already in place and called visas. Canadians who have travelled outside NA/Europe likely have had to apply for a visa for some of their travels and pay the visa fee to visit that country. Unless you have travelled extensively, you have no idea how expensive, time consuming, and intrusive it is to obtain visas for some countries. More importantly, Canada also requires a visa for visitors from countries that impose a visa on travel to their citizens So if US imposed a single entry visa on Mexico, Mexico would do the same back and all of a sudden every US visitor to Mexico would have to pay the same $100 fee, or maybe even more to enter Mexico. Border cities which rely on daily crossing of legal labourers would likely lose their labor or find labor costs increase by $100 dollars a day per laborer to cover the visa cost. Do you really like paying tax that much you are willing to fork over $100 to the US government every time you want to cross the border?

We are not talking visas. $100 tax every time someone crosses the border from Mexico into USA - be they a US citizen or Mexican - no discrimination. It will be a huge cash cow and discourage Americans from traveling into Mexico, keeping tourist dollars at home. If the Mexicans counter with the same tax even better. Make it less enticing to buy or make products in Mexico. MAGA. And this has nothing to do with Canadians or a Canadian border wall, so that warrants no further discussion.