There's no way that Mexico will pay for it.’ Here's one way. In trying to come up with what he called “an easy way” for Mexico to pay, Spicer might have inadvertently demonstrated the point that analysts, commentators and pundits have been making for months. Currently, corporations pay taxes on their profits — that is, their sales less the costs of doing business. 's, bringing those dollars back to the United States to buy goods and services made by Americans. It could be decades before the United States begins consistently exporting more than it imports again.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2017 16:12 UTC