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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichele 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 theyre making money with their corrupt governments in conjunction with these international criminal cartels, theyre 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.
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
(38,958 posts)can we include the money that corporations are hiding overseas in this "wonderfully well thought" out program?
What is good for the goose................
TheMick
(23 posts)....to tax Americans, individuals or businesses, on money they send overseas, this proposal seems quite consistent,
although 100% seems to be a bit of hyperbole.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)go away...and go to jail.
maxrandb
(15,345 posts)trying to keep up with Republican idiocy, makes one busier than a cat covering shit on a linoleum floor.
stone space
(6,498 posts)First with income taxes when we earn the money, and again when we convert the dollars to local currency.
Gothmog
(145,481 posts)She has no clue on anything existing in the real world