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Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch
MarkWhittington writes: Donald Trump, the mercurial real estate tycoon and media personality who, much to the surprise of one and all, has become the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president opened his mind just a little about his attitude toward space exploration, according to a story in Forbes. In an answer to a question put to him about sending humans to Mars, the current focus at NASA, Trump said, "Honestly, I think it's wonderful; I want to rebuild our infrastructure first, ok? I think it's wonderful." In other words, dreams of going to Mars must take a back seat to more Earthly concerns. It is not an answer many space exploration supporters want to hear.
Trump is very capable at making money for himself. He does it by mismanaging companies into the ground and then having them (not him) declare bankruptcy. Can't wait to see how that translates to running a country.
That said, he's still the best the Republicans have.
For that matter, we should really lift everyone up, and completely avoid any sort of taxation on income, right? If it's lifting SOME people up to have them working without paying income taxes (even though they get to benefit from the things that the people who DO pay income taxes are buying for them), then it will lift everyone even higher if nobody pays, right? If prohibiting some people from working without paying taxes is bad, then we should lift the prohibition on working without paying taxes. Otherwise we just get more people not paying taxes, when we could just have everyone not paying taxes.
... that WE allow people to travel freely to Mexico, and WE don't have any control over whether they overstay their visas there? That's already the case. Mexico, on the other hand, is absolutely draconian about illegal workers making money in that country. That's why one of their main industries is the expedited piping of other Central American illegals from south of their country to north of their country.
Yeah, that muddled mess makes just as much sense as your open border claptrap. "Both directions" means what
Regardless of your nonsense, here's a basic fact for you: Pew Research reports that only 4% of Central American illegals in the US actually work in agriculture. Your entire meme about food prices going up due to a sudden drop in cheap illegal labor is pure BS and you know it. Removing illegals from that sector would have only a very marginal impact on production costs or retail prices across the board. Please try another lefty meme talking point.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Americans of the frontier era were illegal immigrants even by the USA's own laws. The U.S. at various points in its history signed treaties with Indian tribes agreeing to settlement boundaries, and enacted them into domestic law, such as the various nonintercourse acts. Many people simply ignored these laws and illegally crossed the borders, squatting on land on the other side. Once enough of them did, they were retroactively legalized, what you might call "amnesty".
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He's still got negative net worth.
Funny how after he took a lot of other people's money and said declared bankruptcy he suddenly found millions just after the original owners had no way to get it back.