I feel sorry for these people that keep posting idiotic memes about how we thought Mexico is paying for the ‘Wall’, and then think to myself how truly stupid these people are! Of course Mexico is paying for the ‘Wall,’ and just because they think, like the over the top super rich leadership of the Democratic Party, who more than likely pay cash for all their real estate transactions, and even the after thought ‘Walls’ they build around those real estate transactions that most of us peons need to finance because we can’t pay cash!
I can’t believe that the basics of financing a house or buying a car doesn’t help these mental midgets understand the basic principles and the simple math that it takes to understand basic financing, which isn’t obviously apparent to the writers and creators of these memes and comments! I would have to guess that there isn’t a mandatory requirement in our of having to take a course in basic financing these day in our first and secondary school systems, and collegiate years because Government needs to ‘dumb’ down the public so that American won’t need to bother worrying about such trivial matters in the future because our Liberal colleges and universities will be reassuring today’s students that the government will supply all your daily necessities, and spend your money on what they think is appropriate for the good of the world instead of you spending your money on what you think is important for yourself and your family!
I’ve brought this up before, but I still can’t understand why common sense isn’t common anymore! The U.S. government is estimated to collect $3.37 Trillion in tax revenues and spend a total of $3.76 Trillion in its 2018 budget,resulting in a deficit of $392 Billion. The deficit is expected to be 2.3% of its total estimated GDP of $17.4 Trillion that year. Now you have to understand that these numbers won’t include the Trump boom which won’t reveal itself until the end of the year, and the beginning of fiscal year 2019!
Mexico is paying for the ‘Wall’ in the same way I use to pay the tolls to pay for the GW Bridge to commute to New York City! Today it’s $8 to cross the George Washington Bridge, and then there’s a possible double and triple whammy if you’re going to one of the New York Airports and back to drop someone off or pick someone up.
I just got back from a two week trip to New Jersey to see family and friends while playing a little poker at the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City. I took the southern route because I started the trip going to AC first and was forced to pay $38 dollars on the toll road in Pennsylvania, and then going north on the Garden State Parkway in NJ, because I forgot my EZ pass back in Ohio, where by the way is never needed, I had to stop probably 5-7 times to pay either $.75 or $1.50 for individual tolls representing individual counties!
The other Liberal cash cow was the come on when I was looking for a hotel in AC before driving out. Hotels ranged in price, because it was basically off season and the Monday and Tuesday nights before Thanksgiving, anywhere from, because it was just myself, around the $50-$60 dollar range. I wanted to be on the boardwalk so I stayed at Resorts for old time sake, and that’s because as a Kid and young adult I spent time every summer at a place called LBI (Long Beach Island), and Resorts was the first Casino built in the late 70’s when gambling became legal in New Jersey. Well, to shorten the already long story the nightly rate was $55, but when I got my bill for the 2 nights it came to around $200, do the math… now do the math with all the different taxes ranging from entertainment, state tax, city tax, etc…..
And you still think Mexico isn’t going to be paying for the ‘Wall?’ Before continuing reading on just know that there are 48 places where people can legally cross the Mexico–United States border.
…..Hmmm, income potential to pay for the ‘Wall?’
Here’s a little history behind the George Washington Bridge, which is a Bridge I actually had to walk across on a daily basis when I was a lifeguard in Fort Lee New Jersey when in High school because the bus I had to take couldn’t stop there, and as a result I had to take the bus into the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 175th, and walk back over the Bridge to the apartment complex where I worked.
Workers built the six-lane George Washington Bridge in sections. They carried the pieces to the construction site by rail, then hauled them into the river by boat, then hoisted them into place by crane. Though the bridge was gigantic, engineer Othmar Amman had found a way to make it look light and airy: in place of vertical trusses, he used horizontal plate girders in the roadway to keep the bridge Steady. Amman used such strong steel that these plate girders could be relatively thin and as a result, the bridge deck was only 12 feet deep. From a distance, it looked as flimsy as a magic carpet.Meanwhile, thanks to Amman’s sophisticated suspension system, that magic carpet seemed to be floating: The bridge hung from cables made of steel wires–107,000 miles and 28,100 tons of steel wires, to be exact–that were much more delicate-looking than anything anyone had ever seen.
The bridge opened to traffic on October 25, 1931. One year later, it had carried 5 million cars from New York to New Jersey and back again. In 1946, engineers added two lanes to the bridge. In 1958, city officials decided to increase its capacity by 75 percent by adding a six-lane lower level. This deck (the New York Times called it “a masterpiece of traffic engineering,” while other, more waggish observers referred to it as the “Martha Washington”) opened in August 1962.
Today, the George Washington Bridge is one of the world’s busiest bridges. In 2008, it carried some 105,894,000 vehicles.
SO, HOW IS MEXICO PAYING FOR THE WALL?
To finance the George Washington Bridge, the states of New York and New Jersey each advanced $5 million and $50 million in bonds were issued.
Tolls were set to pay off the bonds, which would mature serially starting in 1953. It was assumed after paying off the bond holders,the tolls would eventually be reduced or even eliminated. (Ha!)
The original toll for passenger automobiles was 50 cents each way. Motorcycles and bicycles were charged 25 cents, and trucks were charged up to one dollar depending upon their weight. A simple bus ride from one end of the bridge to the other cost a dime.
Hmmm…
How Much is Collected at Toll Booths Every Day?
Time for the quick math. At 23 toll booths on the cash side collecting every 30 seconds, that means $184.00 is collected in cash during this time frame. On the E Z Pass lanes, $144 is collected every 30 seconds, as they can accommodate eighteen cars (three in each lane). That means in total the George Washington Bridge collects $328 in tolls every 30 seconds and when you expand that to show an entire day, $944,640 is collected. That’s almost a million dollars every day!
Multiply that over 365 days and you have more than $344 million collected each and every year by the George Washington Bridge, but that doesn’t include the other bridges or tunnels of PATH Trains, buses, etc.!Traffic indicators would suggest that more than 100 million people travel across the George Washington Bridge each year meaning around half of them pay the toll since you only pay the toll traveling into NY city (not leaving). After careful consideration, my estimate is pretty close to the traffic indicators. Not too shabby.
With all of the bridges located in NYC and all of the tollbooths located around the United States, you expect billions and billions of dollars to be collected each and every year. That money goes primarily to state budgets, which can certainly be puzzling considering just how broke most states are these days. You might not think it, but toll booths are big business for state funding so if you want to help your state out during tough times, just go out and take a drive. ~~By Michael Pruser
There are 48 places where people can legally cross the Mexico–United States border.
This is just one of the 48 crossing, and on a daily basis between Tijuana and San Diego 50,000 and 70,000 people cross over to work in the United States daily, “they are called ‘trans-border workers”
For all of Donald Trump’s tough talk on Mexico on the campaign trail, few concrete moves to secure the United States’ southern border have materialized in the first year of his presidency. This is partly because of the inherent limitations of the office; to even begin trying to turn the ambitious pledge of building a border wall into a reality, the president would have to first secure the funding from Congress. So far, though, lawmakers have been reluctant to release any money for the project.
Yet while Trump’s vision of a wall has been too impractical to implement, there is one statistic the president can point to as a win on border security. Since his election in November, the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border has plummeted. In October 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained about 45,000 people there; by March, that monthly figure had fallen to 17,000. Both Trump and the Department of Homeland Security have touted this drop-off as proof that the president is already making good on his vow to tighten border security and stem the flow of illegal migrants from the south.
And in some ways, the president is right. Smuggling people through Mexico and into the United States is a business after all, albeit an illicit one. And like their legitimate counterparts, businesses involved inhuman smuggling are taking steps to account for the uncertainty rising to the north, much of which arose from the Trump administration’s early rhetoric on securing the border and increasing the deportation of illegal migrants. Amid a lack of clarity on the number of border guards who will be hired in the coming years, and the size of the physical barriers that will be erected at certain crossing points, smugglers have raised their prices since October last year.
In some cases, the price for transporting a single migrant from Central America through Mexico has more than doubled from $3,500 to about $8,000. Skyrocketing prices aren’t the only thing putting a damper on migrant flows. Since Trump’s inauguration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has had more leeway to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally, putting people who for years could count on drawing little attention from the authorities at risk of being expelled. (In the two years prior to the Trump presidency, those with extensive criminal records were prioritized for apprehension and deportation.) ~~ By Reggie Thompson.
I don’t care what anyone thinks, but if you don’t believe that American voters aren’t being played and lied to by the Progressive Left and the Mainstream Media, then your missing the point! It’s all about the example America’s Constitution sets for the world with its individual rights, liberties, and freedoms that’s granted to its citizens so that individuals can realize their version of the American Dream, but there’s one problem with that, and that’s the New World Order can’t afford for those same rights, liberties, and freedoms to become contagious because it will short circuit their plans of creating their New World Order through Social Globalism!