re: CNN: If Trump threatens remittances, Mexico will walk from negotiations

Diez medicion de los pies alto.

I don't see why we can't tax remittances at 50%.

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Mexico will walk from negotiations

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What Mexico doesn't understand yet is that these aren't negotiations. There will be no negotiating going on. Trump is going to tell them how its going to be, and they are going to say "si senor".

It's CNN, so it's probably alternative facts.

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I don't see why we can't tax remittances at 50%.

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Because you actually want revenue. Tax at 50% and they'll figure out other ways. Hell, you could have multiple friends pool their funds together and have someone who is here legally just buy a plane ticket and take a suitcase full of cash back. You can't make the tax so high that they resort to other means.

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How about a massive tax on all cruise ship passengers on ships headed to Mexico? On plane tickets to Mexico? Bring their tourism industry to a fricking halt. American tourists may not like it, but so what? There are other places with beaches to go. It might hurt cruise departures from New Orleans, but just go to Belize and La Ceiba instead.

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Illegals send billions home every year by Western Union.

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Hell, you could have multiple friends pool their funds together and have someone who is here legally just buy a plane ticket and take a suitcase full of cash back

TSA really has no legal means to seize the money but I wouldn't trust Mexican officials on the other end of the flight not to take you into the back room with a suitcase full of cash.

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Gotta factor in a little kickback into your budget.

Seriously though, just take it back in travelers checks. You pay cash for them at the American Express office. No way for the US government to touch it.

The people we are talking about are neither stupid nor lazy. You cannot make the tax so high that they find alternatives. Tax the wire transfers at 10-12% and they won't bother.

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Actually, at that point, you don't even need a plane ticket. Walk into an Amex office and pay cash for $10,000 in travelers checks. Then go to FedEx and ship them.

How would the US government tax that?

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the same way they killed online poker: make it illegal for US banks and CC to participate in these schemes

WTF is this with Mexico thinking that they can frick with us?

Of course none of you are offering any way that you can differentiate between legal immigrants or illegal immigrants. All you are proposing is taking money from people who live in the United States who wire that money to destinations in Mexico. Let me explain why this is likely a constitutional problem.

1. you are treating people differently under the law because they seek to wire money to a destination in Mexico. People wiring money to Canada or Iceland do not have a portion of their money seized. This may be a denial of equal protection of the law.

2. you are setting up a tax structure which does not apply to all Americans equally.

3. you are seizing money to force a certain class of Americans, those who seek to wire money to destinations in Mexico, to pay for a vanity wall so Trump will look like a tough guy. That isn't a valid government purpose to seize the money of one class of Americans.