The Great Wall of Trump.

[999tigger 10]

WTO tax rates are set, there should be no retaliation. I am not proposing "protecionism", just WTO tax rates.

 

Trump is proposing tariffs to pay for the wall, which result in retaliatory tariffs. Ofc they will reply in kind as would any nation.

[Lockdoctor 10]

I don't know if wall, will be good or bad. I think it will cost too much.

[L00b 441]

WTO tax rates are set, there should be no retaliation.

Doesn't look like Trump is aware of the fact, nor of the current WTO-trumping NAFTA US obligations to Mexico (and Canada, and reciprocally)

I am not proposing "protecionism", just WTO tax rates.

Doesn't sound like Trump's plan, with his mentioning of (WTO-burying) 20% to 45%.

 

Please think.

[The Joker 10]

I am thinking the Trumpet will rely on cheap Mexican immigrant labour to build the wall, then when the time comes to pay for the wall he will act in a similar manner that he does in his business dealings, which will be to declare America bankrupt so he doesn't have to pay for the wall.

 

And there we have it.

 

A wall between America and Mexico, that the Mexicans paid for.

 

Goodness knows what declaring bankruptcy will do for America's credit rating, but it doesn't seem to have harmed the Trumpet.

[Margarita Ma 10]

Years; anyway it's simply not possible to build a continuous wall through the whole border. The landscape, mountains, rivers etc won't allow it.

 

Trump's a total moron.

Agree with the last statement.

Disagree with the first one.

The Romans did it in Britain to keep out the scots and the picts who raided farms before it was built.

 

Images for hadrian's wall map

The Hadrian's Wall Path is a long distance footpath in the north of England, which became the 15th National Trail in 2003. It runs for 135 km (84 mi), from Wallsend on the east coast of England to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast.

 

Offa built a dyke

Offa's Dyke Path | National Trails

http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/offas-dyke-path

Offa's Dyke Path. Following the English/Welsh border for 177 miles alongside the 8th Century Offa's Dyke this National Trail takes you through changing ...

 

The chinese did it. https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/facts/how-long.htm

 

Thanks to the modern measuring techniques, and after an archaeological survey taking more than five years, the total length of the world's largest man-made structure had been finally revealed in 2012, as 13,170.69 miles (21,196.18 kilometers). The surprising length is more than twice as long as the previous estimates.

[melthebell 862]

Agree with the last statement.

Disagree with the first one.

The Romans did it in Britain to keep out the scots and the picts who raided farms before it was built.

 

Images for hadrian's wall map

The Hadrian's Wall Path is a long distance footpath in the north of England, which became the 15th National Trail in 2003. It runs for 135 km (84 mi), from Wallsend on the east coast of England to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast.

 

Offa built a dyke

Offa's Dyke Path | National Trails

http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/offas-dyke-path

Offa's Dyke Path. Following the English/Welsh border for 177 miles alongside the 8th Century Offa's Dyke this National Trail takes you through changing ...

 

The chinese did it. https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/facts/how-long.htm

 

Thanks to the modern measuring techniques, and after an archaeological survey taking more than five years, the total length of the world's largest man-made structure had been finally revealed in 2012, as 13,170.69 miles (21,196.18 kilometers). The surprising length is more than twice as long as the previous estimates.

and how long will the US one be?

 

this says it

http://fortune.com/2017/01/26/trump-wall-mexico/

Mexico's border with the U.S. is some 2,000 miles long, though roughly 653 miles (or almost a third) of it has already been fenced off in previous government projects. That leaves 1,347 miles needing a wall to comply with Trump's executive order calling for a "contiguous land border between the United States and Mexico, including all points of entry."

 

i bet its far more rugged etc too

Edited January 29, 2017 by melthebell

[The Joker 10]

The Romans did it in Britain to keep out the scots. . .

 

Them pesky Scotch, can't they just leave us English alone ?

[Margarita Ma 10]

and how long will the US one be?

 

this says it

http://fortune.com/2017/01/26/trump-wall-mexico/

 

 

i bet its far more rugged etc too

 

Have you looked at photographs of the Great Wall of China.

 

Trump is mad enough and bad enough to do it and I wouldn't put it past him to do something similar to what an earlier post suggested. Either that or use Maxican prisoners and illegal immigrants to do it. as prisoners were used to build American Roads.

[Penistone999 10]

Years; anyway it's simply not possible to build a continuous wall through the whole border. The landscape, mountains, rivers etc won't allow it.

 

Trump's a total moron.

 

In your opinion , to many he is doing something what should have been done a long time ago.

[the_bloke 17]

Will a physical wall be effective in controlling immigration?

 

Ask Hungary. Since the construction of a fence between Hungary and Croatia at the height of the EU migrant crisis, migrants attempting to get into the country dropped from 138,000 a month to 15.

[LeMaquis 10]

The Romans did it in Britain to keep out the scots and the picts who raided farms before it was built.

 

Things have moved on a bit in the last 2,000 years though. Air travel for example. This article shows that illegal immigrants come by air on a visa. They become illegal when their visa expires and they don't return.

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2017/01/28/why-president-trumps-border-wall-is-an-example-of-bad-leadership/#58e0634f78fd

[melthebell 862]

In your opinion , to many he is doing something what should have been done a long time ago.

what destroy the lives of millions of law abiding americans? Oo