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stopbush

(24,376 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 12:15 PM Jan 2017

Stupid people cheering Trump's stupid 20% tariff on Mexican goods

Are Republicans incapable of rational thought?

Trump proposes a 20% tariff on Mexican goods as a tax to "pay for the wall," and Rs believe that this is somehow taxing Mexicans, in effect making them pay for the wall. No! It means that Americans will be paying the tax to pay for the wall.

Now, if you can somehow get that fact through their thick skulls, their response is, "well, if that's true, it will encourage people buy American goods instead."

Er, if that happens, how does the stupid wall get paid for?

Willful - and gleeful - ignorance.

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