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Subject: Re: President of Honduras Threaten Trump Over Deporting Illegals
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:59:15 -0500
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On 1/4/2025 10:42 AM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-01-03 10:11 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 1/3/2025 7:54 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-03 7:06 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> Honduran President Xiomara Castro just issued a threat to President 
>>>> Trump,
>>>> saying she'll shutdown U.S. military bases if he deports Honduran
>>>> nationals.
>>>>
>>>> "Faced with a hostile attitude of mass expulsion of our brothers, we 
>>>> would
>>>> have to consider a change in our policies of cooperation with the 
>>>> United
>>>> States, especially in the military arena, where, without paying a 
>>>> cent for
>>>> decades, they maintain military bases in our territory, which in 
>>>> this case
>>>> would lose all reason to exist in Honduras.
>>>>
>>>> "We hope that the new U.S. administration of democratically elected
>>>> President Donald Trump will be open to dialogue, constructive and 
>>>> friendly,
>>>> and will not take unnecessary reprisals against our migrants, who 
>>>> normally
>>>> make a great contribution to the U.S. economy."
>>>>
>>>> -------------------
>>>> The balls on her.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a more honest version of her statement: "Honduras is such a 
>>>> shitpile
>>>> (because of the political corruption of which I am a huge part) that 
>>>> our
>>>> population is fleeing like rats off a sinking ship and illegally 
>>>> invading
>>>> the U.S., but America better not do anything to stop it or we'll be big
>>>> mad."
>>>>
>>>> And if illegal Honduran aliens make such great contributions to the 
>>>> United
>>>> States economy, shouldn't she be pleased that they'll be coming back 
>>>> home
>>>> to contribute there?
>>>>
>>>> Here's my counteroffer:
>>>>
>>>> In FY 2023, the Department of State and USAID provided $785.05 
>>>> million in
>>>> bilateral, regional, centrally managed, and humanitarian assistance to
>>>> Honduras. Additionally, the Soto Cano Air Base to which she refers
>>>> contributes another $200 million annually to the Honduran economy.
>>>>
>>>> So if Presidente Castro wants to fuck around, we'll just find other 
>>>> uses
>>>> for all that tax money and she'll find out to the tune of a billion- 
>>>> dollar
>>>> loss in her country's revenue.
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise, she can shut her trap and get on board with Operation
>>>> Repatriation.
>>>
>>> I expect her loss will be considerably more than a billion dollars. 
>>> I'll bet remittances from Hondurans living in America is worth a very 
>>> pretty penny and is a major plus to the families that get them and to 
>>> the government itself, assuming they tax those remittances. Deporting 
>>> Hondurans back to Honduras is going to put a very major dent in that 
>>> remittance money AND any taxes collected on those remittances.
>>
>> Why would such remittances be declared [and thus] made subject to taxation?
>>
>>
> Because governments - ALL governments! - love money and anything that 
> can be taxed is an opportunity to make money so that the politicians can 
> pay for the things that they deem important. That includes programs that 
> help "the people" and those that help the politicians, like magnificent 
> palaces for themselves.

[Inserted left-out words above "and thus"]

What I don't understand is why recipients would declare those funds.