This is fucking hilarious.
Who the fuck does the idiot think is going end up paying for this?Relations between the US and Mexico appeared to be heading for crisis on Thursday after Enrique Peņa Nieto cancelled a meeting with Donald Trump and the White House retaliated by suggesting a new 20% tax on imports from its southern neighbour to finance the construction of a border wall.
It gets even funnier:
So he thinks he can solve trade deficits by taxing the fuck out of importers? And does he honestly think no-one would retaliate?Spicer painted the border tax as one aspect of a broader tax reform policy. “When you look at the plan that’s taking shape now, using comprehensive tax reform as a means to tax imports from countries that we have a trade deficit from, like Mexico,” said Spicer.
“If you tax that $50bn at 20% of imports – which is by the way a practice that 160 other countries do – right now our country’s policy is to tax exports and let imports flow freely in, which is ridiculous. By doing it that way we can do $10bn a year and easily pay for the wall just through that mechanism alone. That’s really going to provide the funding,” he said.