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President Trump has often said that Mexico would pay for the Wall where the purpose is to stop (or at least, slow down) illegal immigration on our Southern border.  He’s consistently held to this even as everyone else has either bashed the idea (the Open Borders addicts, “the establishment”, or the illegal alien apologists) or rolled their eyes (“you expect to get that passed, here, in DC??”). I’ve always thought that the Wall should be built and the Law enforced.  While everyone else was saying that it would be impossible, I knew it was a rather simple thing.  Not complicated, not devious – rather straight forward, actually.  Just tax the remittances being sent back to Mexico.  Simple, eh?  And if you did it with a sufficiently high tax, you could accomplish two things: build the wall fast and act as a huge and perverse incentive to come here simply to work (as opposed to becoming an American).

Sure, too high and the remittances will go down (like when Democrats raise money grubbing taxes and regulations on companies and we watch jobs go away) but take that as a good thing because it means that illegal immigration is also down (and yes, I know that legal immigrants do the same thing – but that can be taken care of).

But it would take one HUGE thing that often time is lacking in DC – the political will to do so.  My, my, two CongressCritters have manned up to do exactly that – a bill to tax remittances heading to Mexico (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Border wall funding solved: GOP pushes for 2% fee on money immigrants send home

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First off, NH:

As it currently stands, the budget will exceed $12 billion for the first time ever. The cost of running state government will be about $9,000 for every man, woman, and child in NH. Is your family getting its money’s worth? Can you afford to pay your share? Here are the numbers from the last budget and the proposed budget:

(H/T: RLCNH)

Those are pretty large increases, given the current rate of inflation (under 2%).  I’ve always maintained that the increase of Government should never be larger than that of the average person’s rise in income.  Which in most cases, is right around the rate of inflation.  And was to we get as reasoning From the UL:

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This teenager certainly needed it (reformatted, emphasis mine):

BROKEN ARROW, Oklahoma -Three teenagers were killed Monday, shot by a man as they were breaking into his home. Officers say it happened at a home near 91st and Clearview Drive in Wagoner County. The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office said the homeowner and his adult son were in the home when three males wearing masks and gloves tried to break in at about 12:30 p.m. The homeowner’s son shot the intruders with a rifle, deputies said, killing all three.

“These three individuals came to this residence with the intent to burglarize it,” Deputy Nick Mahoney said, “One was with brass knuckles, the other one was with a knife.”

Breaking and entering.  Brass knuckles aren’t used for love taps and I bet that knife wasn’t going to be used to carve a heart with an arrow through it on the mantle.  No, these “Smart as a dead rock” thieves meant to do harm to those that wanted to protect themselves and their castle.  However, it does seem they proved that old adage of “Never bring a knife to a gun fight”, especially if you are the one starting it.

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“Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted,” the bill states.

None of that pussy footing around, no politicalese, fulfill’s a campaign promise in fullness – and no “hiding the boots” in arcane language that makes a bill appear to be something that it is not (which last week’s Republican debacle of a process and bill did).

Thank you, US Rep Mo Brooks (Alabama-R), for showing us that less is certainly far more.

(H/T: RedState)

Note:  Are the Establishment Republicans trying to play a shill game with us?

In 2015, Congress passed Obamacare repeal. Now, a replica bill has sat unaddressed in committee since

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And rather blatant about it, too – they video’d themselves urging recent refugees to commit Voter Fraud by including voter registration forms.  Which, if they are really recent, deserving of a “Welcome to Nebraska, courtesy of the Nebraska Democrats.  Once again, proving to the rest of us, that the insurge of refugees and illegal aliens, does not come from the “goodness of their hearts”.  Nope, nosirree!  With these Progressives / incremental Socialists are all politics all the time – they DO see these folks as fresh meat for votes.  After all (reformatted :

The inclusion of a voter registration form in a “welcome” gift basket designed for refugee families is eyebrow-raising. Individuals with refugee status in the United States are only allowed to naturalize after they spend a minimum of five years in the U.S. and obtain permanent residence (a green card). But presumably, individuals who accept a “welcome” basket are new arrivals to the U.S. and have not met the requirements to become citizens. They would be ineligible to register to vote. Unfortunately, these requirements do not always stop voter fraud from occurring.

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Has the Left sprung its own trap on its own feet that it didn’t know it laid all by themselves?  Remember all of the angst when Obama’s HHS decided that an “essential healthcare plan” had to include free contraceptives which also includes abortifacients?  Several organizations sued that it violated their First Amendment rights including Hobby Lobby.  Yet, Obama persisted and went after a most Catholic organization that protested that their religious beliefs said that abortion was murder – and Obama said that was not a religious stance that mattered?

Back to the “hoisted on his own petard” phrase (even as I bet that new HHS ” the Secretary shall” Tom Price may decide that regulation be pulled (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

Liberal Judges Unwittingly Declare ObamaCare Religious Mandate Unconstitutional

They don’t realize it, but liberals have just declared that Obama’s HHS mandate — which forced Catholics to cooperate with providing abortion and contraception — is unconstitutional. The new interpretation of the Establishment Clause espoused by the activist judges who are striking down Trump’s EO is that anything that has a disparate impact on a religious group is unconstitutional.

The rulings by activist judges declaring Trump’s EO on immigration to be unconstitutional were based on arguments that if the EO/law had a disparate impact on any faith, or that if the person behind the EO/law ever said anything that could be construed to violate the new liberal interpretation of the establishment clause, then the EO/law in question was unconstitutional.

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