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bigtree

(85,996 posts)
4. first of all, the proposal being promoted is for illegal immigrant remittances
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 12:35 PM
Jan 2017

...taxing the 70% plus remittances which come from LEGALIZED and NATURALIZED AMERICANS would amount to compounded taxation.

Who supports this? Brietbart?

SlimJimmy

(3,180 posts)
5. That's what I was talking about. Taxing the remittances from illegal immigrants.
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:29 PM
Jan 2017

But, then how would you identify them?

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
6. right. They couldn't do a blanket tax without unfairly impacting Americans
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:31 PM
Jan 2017

...who are in this country legally.

Cha

(297,275 posts)
2. Wow.. well there it is the definitive word. i just posted
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 12:22 PM
Jan 2017

earlier that I distinctly remembered the President of Mexico saying he wouldn't be paying for the WALL.

trump gets more stupid by the minute.

Go Vincente! Gracias bigtree~

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)
3. What many of us gringos don't know is
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 12:32 PM
Jan 2017

What many of us gringos don't know is that Vicente Fox is from Mexico's PAN party, a fairly right-wing, pro-US, pro-private sector party, and not one of Latin America's part-socialist, US bashing populist parties. If Fox says that the PAN party won't stand for it, you can bet your last Swiss Franc that Mexico's left-wing parties will balk at paying for Trump's wall, too.

Not that you're likely to get that sort of analysis from Rupert's News Corpse.

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