It was not clear exactly how the Trump administration would impose the new tax on Mexican exports. But Spicer said it would be part of a broader plan to tax imports from countries with which the United States has a trade deficit, like Mexico.
“If you tax that $50 billion at 20 percent of imports – which is by the way a practice that 160 other countries do – right now our country’s policy is to tax exports and let imports flow freely in, which is ridiculous,” Spicer told reporters. “By doing it that we can do $10 billion a year and easily pay for the wall just through that mechanism alone. That’s really going to provide the funding.”
(via The Washington Post)
UPDATE
Kellyanne Conway says the 20% tax on Mexican imports is just one idea for paying for the wall @NewsHour
— Rachel Wellford (@rachelwellford) January 26, 2017
What would also easily pay for the wall is using 2% of the current $590B DOD budget. Or 20% of the $55B R&D budget wasted on the F-35... There are 7,000 reserve Seebees that could be put to work building something that doesn't enable mass murder.
ReplyDeleteThat 20% increase on Mexican goods will be paid by US consumers... Not Mexico. :P
Byebye Cuervo, hello Jim Beam. See, it works!! /s
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