Mexico Will Pay for the Wall

[ClydeR]

Mexico's former president spoke out about financing the wall.

The GOP presidential hopeful insisted in October that if elected, he would build a wall along the Mexican border and get Mexico to pay for it. But Calderon, Mexico's president from 2006 to 2012, told CNBC on Saturday that there was no way that Mexico would pay for it.

"Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall! And it's going to be completely useless," Calderon said.

"The first loser of such a policy would be the United States," he said. "If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade (or) for people is going to provide prosperity to the United States, he is completely crazy."

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It's just talk. They'll pay for it.

[ClydeR]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1227030672872787969

I'm glad I was redeemed before they started taxing it.

[ClydeR]

I'm glad he reminded me. I almost forgot that we haven't received Mexico's check yet. And they'd better not claim it's in the mail, because I know Trump keep the mail running on time.

Donald Trump has vowed to put a toll on vehicles entering the US from Mexico in order to force the country’s southern neighbour to pay for his much talked of border wall.

On a visit to Arizona, one of a number of states likely to be an election battleground, the president repeated his frequently made claim that Mexico will pay for a such a barrier.

“They’re going to pay at the border, at the gate, cars going through, we’re going to do a toll — or we may do a toll,” Mr Trump said during an event in Yuma, near to the border.

According to Bloomberg News, asked as to whether he still believed Mexico would foot the bill, he added: “Mexico is paying for the wall, yeah.”

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[time4fun]

I'm glad he reminded me. I almost forgot that we haven't received Mexico's check yet. And they'd better not claim it's in the mail, because I know Trump keep the mail running on time.

The scary part is how many people actually believed this was going to happen

[Parkbandit]

The scary part is how many people actually believed this was going to happen

Almost as many who believed that Trump colluded with Russia.

[Gelston]

The scary part is how many people actually believed this was going to happen

You sure are scared a lot. Must suck to live in fear.

[Parkbandit]

You sure are scared a lot. Must suck to live in fear.

[Tgo01]

The scary part is how many people actually believed this was going to happen

I don't think anyone thought for a second that Mexico was just going to sign over a check to the US. That was literally just a dumb ass Democrat talking point.

Everyone knew Mexico was going to pay via tariffs or something similar. Considering Mexico deployed their own army to their southern border to stop illegal immigrants from reaching the US I would say Mexico has already been paying for the wall.

But critical thinking has never been your strong suit, no matter how many classes you have taught for it.

[Parkbandit]

I don't think anyone thought for a second that Mexico was just going to sign over a check to the US. That was literally just a dumb ass Democrat talking point.

Everyone knew Mexico was going to pay via tariffs or something similar. Considering Mexico deployed their own army to their southern border to stop illegal immigrants from reaching the US I would say Mexico has already been paying for the wall.

But critical thinking has never been your strong suit, no matter how many classes you have taught for it.

I'm waiting for someone to do an actual unbiased, non-political analysis of how the new trade agreement President Trump signed with Mexico did for the US economy vs. the old one.