President Trump has announced his chosen method to force Mexico to pay for the border wall, and it is very much what I expected. He plans to use a NAFTA renegotiation or rescission to squeeze the money out of our southern neighbor.
I have preferred rescission combined with a nice, fat import tariff on everything from tequila to tortillas to generate the necessary wall funding. Maybe that is excessive, but the wall would be paid for within a year or two.
It is hard to believe that it has been nearly three years since I wrote this article on the uproar over the Trump announcement on Fox News’ The Five, especially from brain-dead bimbo Dana Perino.
The ignorance and naivete of people I once greatly respected, Perino and Krauthammer especially, was revealed in 2015.
Dana, not only is it possible to force Mexico to pay for the wall, it is actually pretty easy. We can be really creative and have some fun with this if we want.
From The Daily Caller
President Donald Trump plans to use Mexican concessions in ongoing NAFTA negotiations to pay for his proposed 18 billion dollar border wall, he told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.
“They can pay for it indirectly through NAFTA,” Trump explained, adding “we make a good deal on NAFTA, and, say, I’m going to take a small percentage of that money and it’s going toward the wall. Guess what? Mexico’s paying.”
The president added that negotiations over NAFTA would continue after Mexico’s presidential election in July 2018.
Trump has been insistent throughout his presidency and campaign that Mexico will, in some form, pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. He most recently told reporters at Camp David Saturday, “I believe Mexico will pay for the wall. I have a very good relationship with Mexico… Mexico will pay, in some form, Mexico will pay for the wall.”
In the interim, Trump has requested requested approximately $18 billion for the wall. The proposed wall will install fencing on 316 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border and bolster security along the other 407 miles. The $18 billion appropriation will also go towards hiring more border security agents.
