President Trump, Mexico trade barbs over who's going to pay for the wall

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President Trump, Mexico trade barbs over who's going to pay for the wall
Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY Published 11:47 a.m. ET Aug. 28, 2017 | Updated 5:08 p.m. ET Aug. 28, 2017


President Trump insisted Monday that Mexico would indeed pay for his proposed barrier along the U.S.-Mexican border, a day after the country said in a strong statement that it would not.

"One way or another, Mexico is going to pay for the wall," the president said during a press conference. "It may be through reimbursement, but one way or another, Mexico will pay for the wall."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/08/28/after-trump-tweets-mexico-insists-again-its-not-going-pay-wall/608036001/

[Fishrrman]

The border barrier will be funded mainly two ways:

1. An "excise tax" on all foreign remittances. (positive funding/expenditure)
and
2. The savings in benefit expenditures that won't have to be paid to illegals if they had come here (passive savings).