How Trump Proposes to Pay for THE WALL

Sales tax doesn't get paid on food in California.

 

Take a look at your Heritage Foundation report again.

 

So what does your professor and reddit say?

 

Let's just look at the Heritage report.

 

I love that you really believe that you understand the report better than the people who wrote it. It really says a lot about you.

 

Is that all they purchase, food? Is fast food taxed? Beer?

Clothing? Gasoline? Phones?

 

People who make $20k a year? Yeah that's a pretty high percentage of what they spend.

$3 billion worth?

 

I love that you can't explain to me how they came to the conclusion they did given their data table, but that you accept it as fact. It really says a lot about you.

 

Would that be a net positive though? You're just making cash change hands and being spent on consumption instead of being available for investments.

I'd say selling their labor in the black market would be their biggest tribute

 

Accept is as fact? I think the number is clearly way too low

 

yes the only way you can say there is a positive effect is to say that goods are so much cheaper for the rest of us that the benefits we pay out is worth it. Funny part is the same people arguing this also are anti Walmart and want to dramatically raise the minimum wage.

 

19 trillion / 11 million = 1.73 million

Cut it in half for the sake of argument.

865k each?

 

I'm not even saying they're a net plus. Only that, as a percentage of 19t, it's not much.

Try entitlements and military spending.

 

This is my favorite thread, maybe ever.

 

You could build the wall, scale back military spending and end entitlements

 

Sounds low. $20k a year for 60 years. . .

 

At some point, someone has to mention that about half of the 11 million number is from people overstaying their visa and a wall would not have, and would continue to not have, any effect on those people.

 

Shh.

 

Yeah, cancel those.

Solved.

 

Has anyone yet attempted to argue that Trump's plan would fail to produce the desired effect?

Show of hands?