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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
That wouldn't surprise me. It's a white state whose democrat base is more on the progressive side (Milwaukee is the only city that elected two socialist mayors), it's the GOP side where things are more questionable.
Not sure if posted, but Donald Trump authored a memo explaining how he would make Mexico pay for the Wall
. Basically, it involves threatening to cut off the wire transfers that Mexican workers in the United States send to their families in Mexico.
So it is a concrete plan. It's also extremely cruel and outright extortion.
Also, maybe I haven't looked at the article as close as I should but I'm positive that it's not just or even mostly undocumented workers who send money to relatives in Mexico. Legal residents and citizens do too, and I don't think the plan exempt them (not that it would make it any better if it did).
edited 5th Apr '16 9:34:26 AM by Hodor2
Getting off work early today to vote. It's been nothing but solid Bern-feeling in my area, which isn't surprising, but I could see the race being closer in the rural areas. After all, we elected Scott Walker three times, which isn't exactly indicative of a strongly progressive state.
How dare you disrupt the sanctity of my soliloquy?Great, he actually thought it through.
edited 5th Apr '16 9:58:34 AM by Luminosity
They are called "remittances"
and are a big business: Mexico received over $25 billion in 2015.
Indeed. It is almost certain that Trump would not have anything resembling the legal authority to order banks to stop conducting business with Mexico.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Taxing them on the U.S. end would be, well, illegal, absent new legislation from Congress; they are already subject to income tax in as much as they derive from wages earned here. I am sure that Mexico taxes them as income, or at least could.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"If you are poor in another country you should hat Bernie Sanders
Free trade has been one of the greatest equalizing forces around the world.
Yeah one of the big issues for the global south is actually that free trade doesn't exist, specifically there's free trade on manufactured goods (which are often made in the global north but have moved south), but not in agricultural goods (which the global south produces a lot of).
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
Doubtful. Most of the profit margin is skimmed off by the wealthy on both ends. Also, he's running for President of the United States, not President of the Worldwide U.S. Fan Club.
edited 5th Apr '16 12:36:51 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Apparently Sanders still has the edge over Clinton in Wisconsin.