Published: January 13, 2007
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 12 (Reuters) — The price of tortillas here soared 25 percent in the past week, and Mexico said Friday that it would end tariffs on hundreds of thousands of tons of corn imports to help keep them affordable.
Corn prices have been driven in part by high demand in the United States for ethanol fuel, though the Mexican government has also blamed speculation and hoarding by unscrupulous traders.
Do you think the US is to blame for this tax cut ?
And isnt this a good thing for the people of Mexico ?
2007-01-15 01:47:46 · 5 answers · asked by Yakuza 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I strive to post questions without adding my own anti illegal alien slant to them.At times I fail . But trust me I do try.
2007-01-15 03:17:41 · update #1
OK, I'm missing something here. How are we responsible? Is it tied to NAFTA? I know corn and beans are supposed to be coming under NAFTA....
I saw that conservatives want to give farmers a guest worker program where if they work 3 seasons they get permenant residence and a path to citizenship. I think it is pretty expensive taxpayer subsidy to pay for poverty wage families in perpetuity, as well as their offspring, in order to give farmers a seasonal worker for 3 years.
On the other hand, some conservatives (not me) want to end or minimize the farm subsidies. Me, I think being dependant on foreign food would be even worse than being dependant on foreign oil. Look at Europe and the famines after WWII. I'm for not only keeping but increasing the subsidies but employers would have to show their workers were here legally, and would be able to hire seasonal workers from a registered database where seasonal workers can apply for a 5 year approval as seasonal workers. Employers would continue to give housing and medical to those workers, and they would not be able to bring family, so the hit to our schools would not (legally) occur.
Then corn availability could stay high, particularly if we need it for ethanol, and everyone could have cheap tortillas. I'd rather call a subsidy a subsidy and not pay with my kids' education, personally.
2007-01-15 02:28:01 · answer #1 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure "we the people" will be blamed.....even though they never really asked us whether we wanted NAFTA or not. The agreement has hurt American workers as well....but no one really cares about that. They're cutting parts of the rain forest in South America to grow soy beans for our supposid demand as well. I'd rather they leave the rain forest and we have more open spaces left to grow our own instead of building on all our farm land to house all the people rushing here.
2007-01-15 11:21:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no the us is a sovereign nation and Mexico rules themselves
they should not interfere with the us and we don't meddle in theirs
actually i don't care what is good or bad for the Mexican people
because they dislike America and its people and come here illegally and steal rape import drugs attack puppies cause inflation
and demand more services that they are not untitled to
the list keeps growing .
2007-01-15 10:30:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
who really cares about them, let all the immigrants starve to death in their own country. if they can't afford stuff THERE why in the heck could they afford stuff here where it is like 3 times as much! so what do they do about it?...they go in here ILLEGALLY! who cares if the choke on their little tortilla's?i sure don't
2007-01-15 09:54:38 · answer #4 · answered by annabanana 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, why the US we still have tortillas here!
2007-01-15 14:54:55 · answer #5 · answered by ladiB812 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋