Ex-Mexican president insists wall will have to be paid by the American taxpayer
Source: McClatchy News
BY KATIE GLUECK
kglueck@mcclatchydc.com
January 25, 2018 06:34 PM
Updated 2 hours 3 minutes ago
NEW YORK
Donald Trump may have just softened his approach to undocumented immigrants brought to America as kids but he shouldnt be trusted for a moment, charged former Mexican President Vicente Fox during an interview Thursday with McClatchy.
He has no credibility, the former head of state swiped. Nobody knows what he is thinking.
The 23-minute interview came a day after Trump told reporters he was open to creating a path to citizenship for Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Trump, whose campaign for president was rooted in nationalist, hardline immigration rhetoric, has also recently deemphasized his longtime promise that Mexico would pay for a U.S.-built border wall. Instead, while he insists a wall will be built, his administration is looking to Congress for funds, with the eventual goal, Trump has said, of recouping the money, in indirect ways, from Mexico.
To that, the outspoken and profanity-prone Fox replied, If that wall is to be constructed, it will have to be paid by the American taxpayer.
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Marthe48
(17,021 posts)He isn't totally off-the-wall bug-eyed insane. Or stupid. You could say that Vincente is crazy like a Fox.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,907 posts)How to Build Trumps Wall - Privatize It
Republicans have often found a way to tax people surreptitiously by privatizing many public works projects to corporations rather than have govt pay for it. A fee/toll is a tax under another name.
The corporations/investors are granted a multi-year license with a guaranteed profit.
This could also be done with Trumps Wall with Mexico.
Corporations/investors front the money to build it and they will be paid by Mexico.
It gives republicans a chance to save the govt money by investing in it and show their confidence in Trumps word that Mexico will pay for it .
No govt backed bonds.
No cost to the govt,,, no need for taxes,,, profit for the patriotic investors who believe in Trump.
Win win all around.
Even Trump can show his patriotism and shrewd business savvy by investing in it.