{"id":92663,"date":"2016-04-05T13:55:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92663"},"modified":"2016-04-05T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:55:27","slug":"how-come-israel-gets-to-use-remittance-weapon-and-trump-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92663","title":{"rendered":"How Come Israel Gets To Use Remittance Weapon And Trump Can\u2019t?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Brimelow writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

VDARE.com has been discussing the utility of taxing remittances<\/a> from legal and illegal immigrants back to Mexico for years e.g. National Data | A Supply-Side Solution For Illegal Immigration<\/a> <\/em>by Edwin S. Rubenstein, January 26, 2004. So we are naturally delighted by Donald Trump’s just-released proposal to tax remittances to finance his Great Wall of Trump [Trump reveals how he would force Mexico to pay for border wall<\/a>, <\/em>by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Washington Post, <\/em>April 5, 2016. A facsimile of the actual proposal is reproduced here<\/a>].<\/p>\n

The MSM, which more than any politicians really has emerged as the Official Opposition<\/a> and Enforcer of the Narrative<\/a>, is reacting with its usual outrage and incredulity when confronted with a new and unwelcome idea\u2014just like the famous apes<\/a> in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> trying to scare away the mysterious Monolith:<\/p>\n