honeypuppy
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honeypuppy
8mo ago
This has been a relatively popular idea in wonky libertarian circles for while.
Although the proposals I've seen are that you have a flat and relatively low tariff for every single immigrant (e.g. $50,000 and a background check and you can become a US citizen), with borrowing schemes available. The main ideas is that a) a lot of people are paying coyotes and such high fees anyway, so better the US government collect this income and b) it alleviates a lot of the concerns of immigrants being a "drain" on the US. ($50,000 is just an example, it could be considerably higher ot lower).
What is also looks like is Trump trying to find a way to punish his enemies for investigating his attempted coup.
Unfortunately, this probably won't hurt him all that much politically (much like his actual attempted coup).
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