I wonder what changed...
doxydad (1,201 posts)
Michele Bachmann Proposes 100% Tax On Money Sent Home By Immigrants To Stop 'War That Is Being Waged
In a conference call with the anti-immigrant group Numbers USA last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann called illegal immigration a “war against the American people†and suggested that the U.S. levy a 100 percent tax on money that immigrants send back to Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala in order to put pressure on those countries’ governments.
The Minnesota Republican spoke just before House Republican leadership handed its immigration policy over to her and Rep. Steve King .
“When are we going to get serious and really deport and deport right on the border?†Bachmann asked.
“Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, those countries are laughing at us because they’re making money with their corrupt governments in conjunction with these international criminal cartels, they’re all making money and kickbacks,†she said. “What I believe we should do is have a 100 percent tax on remittances, the money that illegal aliens send back to these countries.â€
“What we have to recognize is this truly is a war against the American people,†she added.
Bachmann made the same suggestion to CNS News last week. Of course, many legal immigrants also rely on sending money to family members in their home countries, something that would be made virtually impossible by a 100 percent tax.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michele-bachmann-proposes-100-tax-money-sent-home-immigrants-stop-war-being-waged-against-us#sthash.HlFpcQFM.dpuf
Sherman A1 (13,197 posts)
1. Great Idea!
can we include the money that corporations are hiding overseas in this "wonderfully well thought" out program?
What is good for the goose................
The corporations are leaving because of punitive taxes. We don't want them to leave we want them stay. They're Americans, after all and we shouldn't be chasing away our own.
But we do want to keep the illegals out, so there is nothing inconsistent about what Bachmann said.
Rhinodawg (388 posts)
2. STFU Michelle.
go away...and go to jail.
maxrandb (5,472 posts)
3. Aren't they the party of "low" to "no" taxes???
trying to keep up with Republican idiocy, makes one busier than a cat covering shit on a linoleum floor.
Aren't you the party of "high" taxes to support you so you can stay high?
You want to tax American wealth into destruction while you invite in millions to drown out American citizens in their own country and then send the wealth you haven't destroyed overseas.
The only consistency in your demands is that America is hurt.
stone space (482 posts)
4. I have news for her. We're already taxed on it.
First with income taxes when we earn the money, and again when we convert the dollars to local currency.
Too bad no American is allowed to say that with the Proglodytes come knocking with their hands out.
