Asking for a tax is more than an admission of guilt, as you and Joe say, James. It may cut off noses.The proposed Mexico border tax will be paid by Americans buying those goods, a double-whammy, the kind of mistake that would stop what old colonel is suggesting before it started.
I don't think it will be paid by Americans. I think it will be paid by Mexicans illegally in the US, sending their remittances home. As Trump suggests, a little 15-20% tax on sending that $23 billion home each year and that wall is paid for toot suite!
And if the tax dries up the flow of funds.....well, the Americans win that way too.
Trump is tearing down the bullshit of the state faster than any of us could ever have dreamed of.
Read this little quote from a former Superior Court judge from New Jersey analyzing Trump's very first executive order.
Then he ordered a truly revolutionary act, the likes of which I have never seen in the 45 years I have studied and monitored the governments laws and its administration of them. He ordered that when bureaucrats who are administering and enforcing the law have discretion with respect to the time, place, manner and severity of its enforcement, they should exercise that discretion in favor of individuals and against the government.
This is radical coming from any president in the modern era of government-can-do-no-wrong. It is far more Thomas Jefferson, the small-government champion with whom Trump has never been associated, than it is Theodore Roosevelt, the super-regulator whom Trump has stated he admires. It recognizes the primacy and dignity of the individual and the fallibility of the state. It acknowledges the likely demise of ObamaCare. It is utterly without precedent since Jeffersons presidency.
Trumps revolutionary act is a breeze of freedom on a sea of regulation. It recognizes something modern governments never admit -- that they can be and have been wrong. It is exactly as Trump promised.
Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Read it and weep King. The nanny state will be substantially dismantled in the next 4 years. The statists will be cleansed from the bureaucracy. Unlike the blathering of politicians that I have lived with my entire life, Trump clearly means business. And for those a bit on the thick side, what Trump's outrageous trweets and complaints about crowd size or whatever serve to do is to deflect attention of the easily misled press onto non issues and away from the lighting quick, serious changes he's making in dismantling the leftist edifice.
The English are tired of it, the Dutch are tired of it, The Germans and Swedes are running out of patience. Change is coming, baby!
Obama talked about change....Trump is actually doing it.
I think a properly mounted campaign to reverse the rulings on lead could have success in the next 4 years.
