October 25th, 2007 Posted in Mexicans
Mexico Taxing Tourists In and Out of Mexico and Border Tolls - Statistics  Did you know that when we travel to Mexico we support Mexicans again by having to pay their Entry Tax and their Departure Tax. Did you also know that many tourists are paying up to $50 US Dollars per person just to be able to leave Mexico. WOW! What a GREAT idea these Mexicans have. Â
Why can’t our US Government come up with a cleaver TAX for Mexicans coming across our borders daily? Did you know that we have more than 2.65 million entries per month in just one border location feeding San Diego at the San Ysidro border crossing and that’s just passenger vehicles. Counting all California border crossings passenger vehicles in 2006 we had 65,345,181. YES! This means Millions of Mexicans are coming to work in the USA! And coming in from the Texas borders we have an additional 91,493,127 Mexicans crossing in 2006. These numbers are staggering and they represent mostly Mexicans coming to work in the USA.
 
Source:http://www.transtats.bts.gov/bordercrossing.aspx http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/dt/dtairporttax.html http://www.wordtravels.com/Travelguide/Countries/Mexico/Airports Our Economy has been suffering greatly for many reasons however when Americans hire cheap labor the entire economy suffers. We suffer from poor quality work, poor products, dangers products, more travel on our freeways, more maintenance of our roads, less tax is being paid to maintain America, and money is leaving the USA and going to Mexico. Our US Government is now proposing that all NEW Highways and Freeways be built by private companies and paid by installing TOLLS on these new freeways throughout the USA. WOW! I thought our tax dollars would pay for freeways…..this only applies if the US government can afford to build it and if locals vote on an increased tax to have a freeway built in their area.THE SOLUTION is soooo clear we can learn from the Mexican government on how to raise money to pay for our Freeways and Highways so our taxes don’t go up and that we can avoid paying private companies and the tolls they are proposing on our new freeways. SIMPLE Have a BORDER TOLL to enter the USA this TOLL should be for every single person entering the USA. Imagine if the toll were $10 per person we could collect $1.6 Billion dollars at a minimum per year from our visiting neighbors. At $20 per person you would double the border toll revenue. I would also propose that if the US Government initiated the Border Toll that the majority of the toll money would go to the major metropolitan cities close to the border since these cities are mostly effected economically from the job saturation of these daily Mexican workers. If you have any stories or articles you’d like to contribute click the registration button to add your article. To place comments about an article click on the comments button on top of each article.
