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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: Re: President of Honduras Threaten Trump Over Deporting Illegals
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 16:45:49 -0500
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On 2025-01-04 11:59 AM, moviePig wrote:
> 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.
> 

Somehow or another, that money makes it back to the home country of the 
people that make the remittances, presumably through bank transfers of 
some kind. (I've seen ads for apps that can be used for remittances but 
I assume they still use banking systems like SWIFT in one way or 
another.) The government presumably has reporting requirements for banks 
so that the government system is notified about all money coming into 
the country and then sees the remittances as income that is eligible for 
taxation. If the recipient of the remittance doesn't pay the appropriate 
tax, the government notices because it hasn't collected as much tax as 
it expected and sends their equivalent of the IRS after the person who 
hasn't paid the tax.

Do you not know ANYTHING about how government works??


-- 
Rhino