Posted on 02/10/2017 10:28:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
They spent 10 TRILLION under Osama. Cut everything. Find the 20 billion and shut your pie holes.
Annual Costs of Illegal Aliens to taxpayers(2013)
*Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level. The bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local governments.
*The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117. The fiscal impact per household varies considerably because the greatest share of the burden falls on state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on the size of the illegal alien population in that locality
*Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and local governments.
*At the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal aliens. At the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegal immigration is recouped through taxes collected from illegal aliens.
*Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury.
I don’t think it will cost that much.
Even if it does, it’s a bargain.
Keeping our country....priceless.
So what? It costs $300-$500 billion to keep the illegals here every year. $21 billion is a deal.
Remember Super Storm Sandy?
$30 billion.
Then they porked it up to $60 billion.
No one blinked.
$21 billion is pissed every day by Congress before the roll call is finished.
Don’t accept this. We need to investigate whether this estimate is politicized, whether it incorporates construction in areas where it is much less needed, and whether cheaper alternatives, such as barbed razor wire, might work in certain areas.
Agreed. Trump will build it for half that much.
But it’s a bargain at twice the price.
Maybe we should use Mexico cement, given they are paying for it.
Build it anyway. But get it done.
The wall will show benefit long before it is finished. The sooner we start the sooner we start seeing those benefits.
And when are they going to start booting felons? I’d be in favor of booting anyone in prison who is within a year of completing his sentence. Go, now.
It'll save 10x that much or more in the long haul, so who cares?
Big deal! 21 billion? Think of the savings when we spend over a hundred billion on illegal welfare
The enemedia is reporting this as if it’s a fact. It isn’t.
Much less than the cost of NOT building it.
Build the wall.
$21 billion ?!?!?!!!!
That could probably buy 5 or 6 more F-35s!
I want a Building the Wall channel, non stop reports of progress a!ong the border with live cameras and 4K drone photography.
This will be epic. You will get to hear Democrats worry about costs.
New headline: “Border wall to cost less than 1/3 that of California’s High Speed Rail, and be completed decades earlier.”
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