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Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
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RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 13, 2017 at 1:06 pm
If they wish for a just master, how the fuck'd we get Trump?
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July 13, 2017 at 9:06 pm
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#33
RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 13, 2017 at 9:09 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 9:41 am)Divinity Wrote: If Trump wants a fucking Wall so badly, he can pay for it out of his own fucking pocket.

Honestly, however big Trump's wallet is, it's WAY too goddam expensive for him to actually afford. DHS says the initial costs for such a wall are $21.5 billion (not counting maintenance), and the Senate Democrats say it's more likely to cost $70 billion, with annual maintenance costs being $150 million. No matter how rich he's claimed to be, there's no way in Hell he can pay even the more conservative estimate. And there's no way in Hell defunding Planned Parenthood or food stamps is likely to free up much more money.
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RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 13, 2017 at 10:02 pm (This post was last modified: July 13, 2017 at 10:03 pm by bennyboy.)
. . . turning the US into the world's largest walled ghetto. Now, we just gotta talk everyone into walking around in striped pajamas. Do these fuckwits really think that keeping people OUT of the US is going to be a big problem?
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RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 13, 2017 at 10:09 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 9:09 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Honestly, however big Trump's wallet is, it's WAY too goddam expensive for him to actually afford. DHS says the initial costs for such a wall are $21.5 billion (not counting maintenance), and the Senate Democrats say it's more likely to cost $70 billion, with annual maintenance costs being $150 million. No matter how rich he's claimed to be, there's no way in Hell he can pay even the more conservative estimate. And there's no way in Hell defunding Planned Parenthood or food stamps is likely to free up much more money.

If he can't afford it, then he can--as he suggests people who can't afford fucking health care--get a fucking job to pay for it.
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RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 15, 2017 at 7:45 pm
(July 12, 2017 at 2:05 pm)It_Was_me Wrote: Whatever happened to making Mexico pay for it? These guys are real pieces of shit. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/341626...parenthood

When Trump said he'd make Mexico pay for the wall he meant through increased tariffs, obviously not getting them to voluntarily pay for it. I mean, it's easy to argue against increased tariffs to pay for a wall, but I guess even easier to argue against a strawposition.

Also this article is about some Iowa representative that I've never even heard of proposing something. Not Trump anyway.
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RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 15, 2017 at 8:46 pm
(July 15, 2017 at 7:45 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:
(July 12, 2017 at 2:05 pm)It_Was_me Wrote: Whatever happened to making Mexico pay for it? These guys are real pieces of shit. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/341626...parenthood

When Trump said he'd make Mexico pay for the wall he meant through increased tariffs, obviously not getting them to voluntarily pay for it. I mean, it's easy to argue against increased tariffs to pay for a wall, but I guess even easier to argue against a strawposition.

Also this article is about some Iowa representative that I've never even heard of proposing something. Not Trump anyway.

That's upside down. Tariffs increase the cost of imported goods for US citizens, not the Mexican citizens. We can't impose a tariff on goods sold to Mexico, we can only increase the price. None of that is workable.
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RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 16, 2017 at 10:01 am
(July 15, 2017 at 7:45 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: When Trump said he'd make Mexico pay for the wall he meant through increased tariffs, obviously not getting them to voluntarily pay for it. I mean, it's easy to argue against increased tariffs to pay for a wall, but I guess even easier to argue against a strawposition.

It was misleading plain and fucking simple.

"Mexico is going to pay for the wall!  Through... tariffs that the American people pay."  So basically America is going to pay Mexico for Mexico to pay for the fucking useless wall that's going to do shit all.
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RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 16, 2017 at 7:09 pm
(July 16, 2017 at 10:01 am)Divinity Wrote: It was misleading plain and fucking simple.

Far less misleading than "you can keep your Doctor", but misleading statements are only negative for one side.
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RE: Take away money from PP and Food stamps to fund border wall
July 16, 2017 at 8:24 pm
Every political argument I've EVER SEEN almost immediately devolves into "Well the other side did something like that too!" as if it excuses anything.
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