candycorn
Diamond Member
Please show us where Trump explained that caveat in a speech to his supporters.
How did you think Mexico was going to pay for it?
I knew they would never do any such thing. So did Trump. So did the majority of voters.
The ones late to the party are his supporters.
Seems to me Repub voters know more about how our government works.
His supporters knew it would have to be through tariffs.
Root: Trump Does It, Gets Mexico to Pay for the Wall — and They Didn't Even Notice
A conservative talk show host has become your "go to" source? LOL....
And the Congress is passing a bill to fund it.
Again, if your link was remotely true...why are they doing that?
Tariffs are taxes on imports. The nation doing the imports pays the tax.
Put another way, when you go to Wal Mart or Target or Best Buy and purchase something...do you honestly believe that Wal Mart or Target or Best Buy is paying a tax on your purchase?
Don't like young conservatives?
No surprise.
No taxes are paid for by consumers.
Tariffs are a tax on goods coming into or leaving a country.
Like or dislike is not important. Correct or incorrect are. Talk show hosts are usually talk show hosts because they are good at it. Economists are usually economists because they are good at it. Seldom is someone good at both given that they are vastly different disciplines. Do you like being wrong? Probably. It is your discipline of choice.
As for consumers….now take it a baby step further. You can…can’t you? Let me help you.
Taxes are paid by consumers. Unless those consumers are in Mexico, they are not paying the tax. Since it is Americans paying the tariffs/taxes, that means any revenue derived from those tariffs/taxes comes from Americans.
Hence the money spent to build a wall that has no hopes of stopping most immigration is paid for by Americans.