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Differnt ways to fund the wall

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Different ways to fund the wall

I see a few ways to do it.

1 ) There are roughly 138 million tax payers in the USA. If taxes were raised on average $100 it would net $13,800,000,000 ( 13.8 billion dollars )

2 ) Simply put a tariff on all Mexican good being imported. Mexico has no choice as 85% of their imports come to the USA. End the Tariffs once the wall is built.

3 ) Since 2000, legal immigrants to the United States number approximately 1,000,000 per year. Okay, create a one time fee to become a citizen to build the wall, just like I had to pay the DMV of Florida something like $500 to get a new drivers license. 1,000,000 times say a one time fee of $500 would equal 500,000,000. Over the course of 10 years that's 5,000,000,000 ( 5 billion Dollars ). After ten years the amount would be 10,000,000,000 ( ten billion )

So there you have it. I listed 3 ways to do it. It can be a combination of them of just one idea by itself. Trump and the Republicans ( Mostly 30 or so Republicans in the house ) blew this chance prior to the mid terms. Now Donald must use an executive order power, which will last at least until 2020, and hopefully until 2024 to make the above happen.

Who likes these ideas?
 
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Screw raising taxes, even a token amount. Slash spending everywhere. No more aid to any other country and only spend on our military and infrastructure, including the wall. Use the massive surplus to pay down the mostly Obama-created debt. That's more important than spending on stupid **** like studying how tree frogs ****.
 
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Why doesn't Congress pass universal e-verify, which costs next to nothing to implement?
 
start an new national lottery. tickets are 1 buck a piece. half goes to wall half goes to winning lottery ticket. .1% goes to me.
 
Just charge an entry fee for everyone entering this country legally at the border.
 
Just charge an entry fee for everyone entering this country legally at the border.

That was my 3rd point. Blitz's lottery idea wasn't bad either.
 
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With the Dems in control of the House and budget you can forget about all that and get ready for legislation that really will be on their agenda




House Democrats Plan Push to Criminalize Private Gun Sales


Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) met with gun control groups that included the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, the Center for American Progress, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and Gabby Giffords’ group. He asked them what they wanted, and a bill to criminalize private gun sales was on their wish list.

So Thompson will sponsor legislation requiring a background check before someone may buy a gun from his neighbor, a co-worker to get a background check before buying a gun from a co-worker, and so forth. The bill will go so far as to require a son to get a background check before a father can give him a gun as a gift.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...rats-plan-push-criminalize-private-gun-sales/
 
Screw raising taxes, even a token amount. Slash spending everywhere. No more aid to any other country and only spend on our military and infrastructure, including the wall. Use the massive surplus to pay down the mostly Obama-created debt. That's more important than spending on stupid **** like studying how tree frogs ****.
Give the House two options - find the money from spending cuts or foreign aid, or hit all 140MIL taxpayers with a one time $25 tax. That brings in $3.5B, which should get it off the ground.
 
Why doesn't Congress pass universal e-verify, which costs next to nothing to implement?

like i said in another thread, which you didnt respond to...
you want to pay off that $20 Trillion credit card payment?

Stop spending money at:

Afghanistan - $5,060,084,350
Iraq - $5,281,583,316
Iran - $1,066,867
Oman - $5,446,829
Turkey - $154,594,512
Georgia - $96,358,135
Azerbaijan - $15,232,389
Armenia - $22,205,304
Libya - $28,112,087
Russia - $18,958,172
Egypt - $1,239,210,039
Kenya - $1,144,190,351
Sudan - $141,629,834
South Sudan - $717,296,352
India - $179,458,972
Nepal - $194,268,219
Pakistan - $779,773,893
Yemen - $305,054,784
Jordan - $1,218,828,075
Syria - $916,426,147
Lebanon - $418,255,321
Turkmenistan - $2,793,670
Uzbekistan - $19,721,153
Saudi Arabia - $732,875
Ethiopia - $1,111,329,269
China - $42,477,582
Bangladesh - 263,396,622
Sri Lanka - 23,974,840
Cambodia - 103,710,575
Tunisia - $145,775,770
Congo (Kinshasa) - $454,244,593
South Africa - $597,193,299

Grand Total:
$20,703,384,196

Could pay that debt down QUICKLY.

Then use that money to house our homeless. Feed our hungry. Pay for all of our children to attend college "free". Provide healthcare across the board "free".

****, could probably even throw some flat screen tvs on walls, pay some BommaPhone Bills and even pare down gender to fit what science states, all while cleaning up the ocean's plastic islands, removing dissolving/disintegrating plastic from beaches and coast lines, and building a goddamn wall.

Is that what you want 21?
 
like i said in another thread, which you didnt respond to...
you want to pay off that $20 Trillion credit card payment?

Stop spending money at:

Afghanistan - $5,060,084,350
Iraq - $5,281,583,316
Iran - $1,066,867
Oman - $5,446,829
Turkey - $154,594,512
Georgia - $96,358,135
Azerbaijan - $15,232,389
Armenia - $22,205,304
Libya - $28,112,087
Russia - $18,958,172
Egypt - $1,239,210,039
Kenya - $1,144,190,351
Sudan - $141,629,834
South Sudan - $717,296,352
India - $179,458,972
Nepal - $194,268,219
Pakistan - $779,773,893
Yemen - $305,054,784
Jordan - $1,218,828,075
Syria - $916,426,147
Lebanon - $418,255,321
Turkmenistan - $2,793,670
Uzbekistan - $19,721,153
Saudi Arabia - $732,875
Ethiopia - $1,111,329,269
China - $42,477,582
Bangladesh - 263,396,622
Sri Lanka - 23,974,840
Cambodia - 103,710,575
Tunisia - $145,775,770
Congo (Kinshasa) - $454,244,593
South Africa - $597,193,299

Grand Total:
$20,703,384,196

Could pay that debt down QUICKLY.

Then use that money to house our homeless. Feed our hungry. Pay for all of our children to attend college "free". Provide healthcare across the board "free".

****, could probably even throw some flat screen tvs on walls, pay some BommaPhone Bills and even pare down gender to fit what science states, all while cleaning up the ocean's plastic islands, removing dissolving/disintegrating plastic from beaches and coast lines, and building a goddamn wall.

Is that what you want 21?

I’m all for cutting spending, but what you tallied amounts to $20.7 BILLION. You still got $19,979,300,000,000 to go.
 
I’m all for cutting spending, but what you tallied amounts to $20.7 BILLION. You still got $19,979,300,000,000 to go.

Correct. Correct. Correct.
my god, Correct.

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can I now direct your silly *** to, and I quote:

Superman said:
Grand Total:
$20,703,384,196

Could pay that debt down QUICKLY.

https://tenor.com/view/parody-edit-psa-the-more-you-know-***-got-learned-gif-5736426

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Screw raising taxes, even a token amount. Slash spending everywhere. No more aid to any other country and only spend on our military and infrastructure, including the wall. Use the massive surplus to pay down the mostly Obama-created debt. That's more important than spending on stupid **** like studying how tree frogs ****.

Still baffles me how we can spend on foreign aid when that money can be utilized here to help needy people.
Just this morning I saw a homeless vet at the TA truck stop.

Same with some of these fundings for odd studies. I'm for cancer research and the like. Liberal studies though? Naw.
Some of you guys should run for President lol
 
We should tax all remittances (any wire transfer of money from inside the U.S. to outside the U.S.) of under $10,000 (thus avoiding bank transfers) at 2%.

Latin America and the Caribbean is receiving over $50-$75 billion/year this way. That is money earned in the U.S. (often untaxed as cash wages) and then sent via wire transfer to another country. Rarely is it sent in the mail as cash. Rarely it is hand carried over the border.

a 2% tax on this service would generate over $1 billion/year that should be used for border security and funding the wall.

Problem solved.
 
I’m all for cutting spending, but what you tallied amounts to $20.7 BILLION. You still got $19,979,300,000,000 to go.

Well, if you DON'T cut this, you have even more to go. We are, essentially, borrowing this additional $20b every year just to give it to some other country.
 
4. Cover the wall with solar panels and sell the electricity to Mexico.
 
We should tax all remittances (any wire transfer of money from inside the U.S. to outside the U.S.) of under $10,000 (thus avoiding bank transfers) at 2%.

Latin America and the Caribbean is receiving over $50-$75 billion/year this way. That is money earned in the U.S. (often untaxed as cash wages) and then sent via wire transfer to another country. Rarely is it sent in the mail as cash. Rarely it is hand carried over the border.

a 2% tax on this service would generate over $1 billion/year that should be used for border security and funding the wall.

Problem solved.

Smart ************, this guy.
 
I can't believe anyone actually still believes there is going to be a wall. Might wanna get a handle on those over-stayed visas while you're at it. Lotsa immigration problems that go far beyond what a wall can fix.
 
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Correct. Correct. Correct.
my god, Correct.

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can I now direct your silly *** to, and I quote:



https://tenor.com/view/parody-edit-psa-the-more-you-know-***-got-learned-gif-5736426

Silly *** is not realizing one BILLION is 1/1,000th of one TRILLION. Really fast, huh?

“and I quote” LOL! Yes, you do!
 
Silly *** is not realizing one BILLION is 1/1,000th of one TRILLION. Really fast, huh?

“and I quote” LOL! Yes, you do!

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quite obviously you're unaware of how to pay off a debt.
yes, dimly, it is a fraction of the debt. yes, it would be paid down/off quicker than the current sluggish pace we are at. yes, you're making yourself out to look even dumber than previously imagined.
 
I’m all for cutting spending, but what you tallied amounts to $20.7 BILLION. You still got $19,979,300,000,000 to go.

Correct 1 trillion = 1,000 billion.

The key take away here is you can build the wall for far less than 20.7 billion.
 
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quite obviously you're unaware of how to pay off a debt.
yes, dimly, it is a fraction of the debt. yes, it would be paid down/off quicker than the current sluggish pace we are at. yes, you're making yourself out to look even dumber than previously imagined.

And I quote SuperALLCAPSman “QUICKLY”. 1/1,000th Is a hell of a fraction to pay a debt off “QUICKLY”.
 
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