re: Dumb Mexican Border Question

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Why does anyone believe our government can build a 2000 mile long wall for $5 billion?

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Seems like it would end up being cheaper to just buy Mexico. Can we do that?

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Fleeing?

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Yes. The wealthy of France have been leaving that country due to the increased tax burden of the socilaist gov't.

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What we do know is that this non-existent (so far) tax has been the clincher that sent hundreds, possibly thousands of French citizens abroad: not just “the rich”, whom Hollande, during his victorious campaign, said he personally “disliked”, and who now are pushing up house prices in South Kensington and fighting bitterly over the Lycée Charles de Gaulle’s 1,200 new places; but also the ambitious young, who feel that their own country will turn on them the minute they achieve any measure of personal success.

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Again, if we can agree that The Wall will work, why would anyone want to put up a barrier that could be used against them? Why would you want to give the gov't the ability to keep you from leaving the country? It makes no sense.