BREAKING NEWS: Trump proposes 20% tax on imports from Mexico to pay for wall

[WaitingFor2020]

Mexico will agree to build the border Wall if and only If they get to build it along the original US Mexico border .....

how bout we just give them California?

California is the 6th largest economy in the world now. Why do conservatives hate America?

BUSINESS NEWS | Fri Jun 17, 2016 | 9:17pm EDT
California surpasses France as world's sixth-largest economy
California surpasses France as world's sixth-largest economy

 

[candycorn]

Watch Mexico do the same to us...

Trade war is coming.

Wouldn't this just cause American companies to start making products in America?

No. Instead of buying Mexican product, you buy one made in El Salvador and import the product into the US. What Mexico will do is sell the product to El Salvador who will turn around and sell it to us at a premium….

Won't American companies just move the companies to El salvador and cut out the middle man?

Who cares what Mexican companies do?

Those buying their products.

 

[toomuchtime_]

It will cost millions, not billions, and it will cost more to lose market share in the US.

The loser will be the american consumer

American consumers will lose nothing because the federal government will lower taxes and remove unnecessary regulations to lower the cost of production and the states will offer other benefits as they compete for the new factories. Japanese cars manufactured in the US are price competitive with US cars manufactured in Mexico now, and the cost of production here will be even lower once the tax and regulator reforms are in place.

So we are going to lower taxes, just how much larger will our national debt be??

Whether the national debt increases or decreases because of the tax cuts will depend on how much the economy grows because of this stimulus.

What stimulus?

You mean they will be the winner...

How will they be a winner paying 20% extra for merchandise

It has been explained many times in this thread that why there will not be 20% increase to consumers. Are you unable to understand what has been said?

No, try again

Apparently you haven't been able to understand why cost to consumers will not go up.

Please explain why they won't go up

The tax cuts will provide an economic stimulus and the cost of production will not go up because of lower corporate taxes and fewer costly regulations plus competition among states to lure the new factories returning companies will have to build. If Japanese cars manufactured in America are price competitive with US care manufactured in Mexico now, there is no reason to think US care manufactured in the US will cost more after these tax and regulatory reforms are in place.

 

[brummelben]

Mexico will agree to build the border Wall if and only If they get to build it along the original US Mexico border .....

how bout we just give them California?

California is the 6th largest economy in the world now. Why do conservatives hate America?

BUSINESS NEWS | Fri Jun 17, 2016 | 9:17pm EDT
California surpasses France as world's sixth-largest economy
California surpasses France as world's sixth-largest economy

considering 15 million or so Republicans live in California. More than any other state except texas

 

[Uncensored2008]

The importer will pay the tax. Then likely turn around and up the price it charges to the public.

They face stiff competition from other countries.

I applaud Trump for this, but it violates NAFTA, so he will have to back us out of that before he can do this.

 

[WaitingFor2020]

They make a lot of flat screen TV's in Africa do they?

See for yourself. Even Ivanka is manufacturing in Africa now.


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Shoes and Flat screen TV's are two very different animals.

St. Louis used to be the shoe capital of America....it's a wasteland now....

That makes sense. Although I'd pay more for a product made in America. Not a ton more though.

it is hard to find American made these days

Open up an Eddie Bauer catalog, or any catalog and note the final line of 95% of every item: "Imported". But the upside is that the sweater you paid $80 for twenty years ago now only costs $20.

 

[MrShangles]

Even if they don't pay anything, just think about all the government handouts we won't be giving to the illegals after the wall is built. Use that money if necessary.
Trump should cut off those government handout to nonAmericans anyway.
Food stamps, welfare, and the such.


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[Eloy]

So, the Mexicans are not paying for the wall because the revenue collected on imports which belongs to the American people will be used for that purpose. The American consumers, then, will be paying for the Trump Wall.

Until those manufacturers come back to US soil.

I believe the import duty of 20% will be added to all

Which will result in higher cost goods from Mexico. That fee will be passed on to the consumer for the most part. Fine by me. Build the damn wall.

You are correct; the American consumers will be paying for the Trump Wall.

So be it. I have no problem paying for my own security, do you?

Creating a trade war with your nearest neighbor which has been a friendly democracy until now is not my idea of ensuring security.

The president of Mexico is the one who did not want to negotiate. The wall is ensuring security, fool!

No president would negotiate with another one on condition that his country would have to fund a wall along the border.

 

[brummelben]

The importer will pay the tax. Then likely turn around and up the price it charges to the public.

They face stiff competition from other countries.

I applaud Trump for this, but it violates NAFTA, so he will have to back us out of that before he can do this.

If you back trump you don't have a ******* clue as to what you are talking about. The Trumpster doesn't either

 

[Winston]

Why are we importing Mexican produce when we have California and Florida?

Grow a lot of limes in California?

 

[owebo]

Watch Mexico do the same to us...

Trade war is coming.

Wouldn't this just cause American companies to start making products in America?

No. Instead of buying Mexican product, you buy one made in El Salvador and import the product into the US. What Mexico will do is sell the product to El Salvador who will turn around and sell it to us at a premium….

Won't American companies just move the companies to El salvador and cut out the middle man?

Who cares what Mexican companies do?

You should, Einstein. They are part of North American trade, you idiot

Sorry, my post was above your education level....

 

[Missourian]

Thanks for your opinion. Now do you have any hard DATA to add?

Sure...we send Mexico over $400,000,000 in US economic aid every year...just slightly less than we send failed states Nigeria and Iraq, and slightly more than we send to failed states Lebanon, Haiti, Somalia and Sudan. (LINK)

China, on the other hand...has 3 trillion US dollars in it's foreign exchange reserves as of last month. (LINK)

See the difference?

 

[WaitingFor2020]

Mexico will agree to build the border Wall if and only If they get to build it along the original US Mexico border .....

how bout we just give them California?

California is the 6th largest economy in the world now. Why do conservatives hate America?

BUSINESS NEWS | Fri Jun 17, 2016 | 9:17pm EDT
California surpasses France as world's sixth-largest economy
California surpasses France as world's sixth-largest economy

considering 15 million or so Republicans live in California. More than any other state except texas

They aren't as stupid as your average Texas Republican.
CA has 39,000,000 people and yet their vote is supposed to be negated by some sheep rancher in Wyoming.

 

[Uncensored2008]

considering 15 million or so Republicans live in California. More than any other state except texas

If that were true, the Khmer Rouge would not have 100% control of the once great state.

 

[Eloy]

Even if they don't pay anything, just think about all the government handouts we won't be giving to the illegals after the wall is built. Use that money if necessary.
Trump should cut off those government handout to nonAmericans anyway.
Food stamps, welfare, and the such.


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When Mexico does not pay for the Trump Wall, the American president will have failed which he will not accept.

 

[brummelben]

considering 15 million or so Republicans live in California. More than any other state except texas

If that were true, the Khmer Rouge would not have 100% control of the once great state.

The Khmer Rough haven't been a factor in decades. Where the phyuck have you been hiding

 

[NYcarbineer]

lol, the Trump tariff started out at 45%. The Mexicans have him down to 20% without lifting a finger, negotiations-wise.

Is that Trump's Art of the Deal in action? Unilateral cave-in? lolol

 

[owebo]

The importer will pay the tax. Then likely turn around and up the price it charges to the public.

They face stiff competition from other countries.

I applaud Trump for this, but it violates NAFTA, so he will have to back us out of that before he can do this.

If you back trump you don't have a ******* clue as to what you are talking about. The Trumpster doesn't either

Right...Trump is a real idiot....

 

[jon_berzerk]

See for yourself. Even Ivanka is manufacturing in Africa now.


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Shoes and Flat screen TV's are two very different animals.

St. Louis used to be the shoe capital of America....it's a wasteland now....

That makes sense. Although I'd pay more for a product made in America. Not a ton more though.

it is hard to find American made these days

Open up an Eddie Bauer catalog, or any catalog and note the final line of 95% of every item: "Imported". But the upside is that the sweater you paid $80 for twenty years ago now only costs $20.

maybe maybe not

 

[brummelben]

The importer will pay the tax. Then likely turn around and up the price it charges to the public.

They face stiff competition from other countries.

I applaud Trump for this, but it violates NAFTA, so he will have to back us out of that before he can do this.

If you back trump you don't have a ******* clue as to what you are talking about. The Trumpster doesn't either

Right...Trump is a real idiot....

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You got it, a serious mental case. Who else would complain about losing the election by 3 million votes