Title: The Trump Wall Tax: an exercise in critical thinking

Authors: Daniel A. Underwood

Addresses: Peninsula College, 1502 East Lauridsen, Port Angeles, WA 98362, USA

Abstract: A series of discovery-based critical thinking exercises are presented that explore potential unanticipated consequences that might result from Trump's Wall Tax, a tax imposed on Mexican imports to pay for construction of a physical barrier between nations. These exercises include the distribution of the tax between nations, impacts on the Mexican labour force and impacts on the US labour force. It is discovered that if both nations would pay the tax, employment and wages might fall in Mexico thereby increasing pressure for illegal immigration and that employment and wages in the USA may fall as well. These exercises create the context to integrate multiple paradigms to further explore this controversial issue.

Keywords: critical thinking; cognitive rejoinders; theme rejoinders; multiparadigmatic; contending perspectives; Trump Wall Tax.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2017.089325

International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2017 Vol.8 No.4, pp.406 - 413

Received: 15 Aug 2017
Accepted: 16 Aug 2017

Published online: 17 Jan 2018 *

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