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Republicans lastly discover some folks to boost taxes on

Editorial Board Published May 15, 2025
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The Home GOP is past prepared to assist President Donald Trump make life depressing for immigrants, this time within the type of the Republican tax invoice that proposes placing a 5% tax on remittances. 

As a common matter, it’s not that Republicans hate elevating taxes; they simply hate to be perceived as elevating taxes. So, whereas it’s true that the most recent tax invoice is a large giveaway to the wealthy, it largely does that by tilting the cuts to their profit. 

And let’s be clear: So far as the GOP is worried, showering the rich with goodies by harming low-income and middle-class taxpayers, effectively, that’s only a function, not a bug. However they don’t truly need to say that, so it’s cloaked in language about “big, beautiful” tax cuts for all. 

Besides in relation to taxing remittances, which they’re more than pleased to do. 

When Republicans confer with “remittances,” they’re solely speaking about one sort: immigrants sending a reimbursement to members of the family of their dwelling nations. However they’re a lot broader than that. 

A remittance is cash despatched by customers to abroad people or corporations by means of a remittance switch supplier, which may be banks or different monetary establishments. Sending cash by means of a remittance supplier contains sure protections, like the correct to obtain charge data, together with any overseas taxes to be deducted, and the correct to cancel a switch. And whereas it’s not the one method to ship a reimbursement dwelling, it is likely one of the most secure methods. 

The GOP proposes that any noncitizen sending a reimbursement dwelling be hit with this 5% tax—that means they’d pay a hefty charge for sending their very own cash to another person. And it’s not restricted to undocumented immigrants; folks with inexperienced playing cards and visas would additionally must pay the 5% charge, however U.S. residents wouldn’t. 

However the assault on remittances isn’t simply coming from the Home. Trump additionally lately introduced that he will probably be issuing a memo that may “shut down remittances” for anybody not legally within the nation. Given the dystopian and certain unlawful information sharing settlement between the Inside Income Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it might be attainable for Trump to get sufficient data to drag this off.  

And it’s not simply Trump, both. The worst folks you already know have been banging the drum on this for some time now. 


The U.S.-Mexico border wall, with a big hole proven, has but to be accomplished or paid for by Mexico.

In 2023, when Vice President JD Vance was however a wee senator purchased and paid for by Peter Thiel, he launched a invoice that may have taxed remittance transfers at 10%. His Home GOP co-author, Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, spun this as a necessity for nationwide safety—as a result of all remittances simply go to drug sellers and human traffickers, so far as the GOP is worried. In actuality, remittances assist strengthen and stabilize the worldwide financial system by serving to fund new properties and meals.

And through his chaotic and pathetic presidential run, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leaned into this concept, saying that he would impose remittance charges on anybody sending cash to Mexico, which might then fund the U.S.-Mexico border wall. 

We’re nonetheless a great distance from Mexico paying for the wall, aren’t we? And on condition that it was comically costly to construct only a small quantity throughout Trump’s first time period, it doesn’t appear to be nickel-and-diming immigrants goes to cowl the associated fee. 

However it can make their lives a lot tougher, and that’s all Republicans really need anyway.

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