Posted on 02/10/2017 10:28:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Navy Seebees. They are drawing pay anyway.
21 billion dollars divided by 300 million Americans is only $70 each.
Not much at all in the big picture.
RE: Fake news. Report from Obama’s DHS.
If this is fake news, how much do you reckon the wall would really cost then?
Well, that’s the gambit that you’ve laid out very well. We’ll see what happens.
Mexico was the United States’ 3rd largest supplier of goods imports in 2015.
U.S. goods imports from Mexico totaled $295 billion in 2015, up 0.2% ($667 million) from 2014, and up 73% from 2005. U.S. imports from Mexico are up 638% from 1993 (pre-NAFTA). U.S. imports from Mexico are up 638% from 1993 (pre-NAFTA).
The top import categories (2-digit HS) in 2015 were: vehicles ($74 billion), electrical machinery ($63 billion), machinery ($49 billion), mineral fuels ($14 billion), and optical and medical instruments ($12 billion).
U.S. imports of agricultural products from Mexico totaled $21 billion in 2015, our 2nd largest supplier of agricultural imports. Leading categories include: fresh vegetables ($4.8 billion), other fresh fruit ($4.3 billion), wine and beer ($2.7 billion), snack foods ($1.7 billion), and processed fruit & vegetables ($1.4 billion).
U.S. imports of services from Mexico were an estimated $21.6 billion in 2015, 11.0% ($2.1 billion) more than 2014, and 50.0% greater than 2005 levels. It was up roughly 191% from 1993 (pre-NAFTA). Based on 2014, leading services imports from Mexico to the U.S. were in the travel, transportation, and technical and other services sectors.
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/mexico
If true, cheap at twice the price...
That's about what we taxpayers pay to support illegal aliens in three months...
But that's irrelevant.
Remember the ice rink that New York City tried to build in NYC for ten years, spent many tens of millions and failed (the rink leaked like a sieve)?
Trump built it for 1/4 the cost in three months.
WRONG!
It was $800,000,000,000+ and to this day no one has accounted for what it "bought" that was of any use to a non-criminal.
Standard tactic of the left for anything proposed by Republicans that has a price tag, usually military, but the wall in this case:
Simply SCREAM about the price and you’re likely to get a few weasels like Rand Paul to rise up against it. True CONSERVATIVES understand the need and defend the project - others have some contorted underlying ‘principal’, where you’ll never see them complain about the $2 TRILLION we spend each year on Social Security / Medicare, never a peep from Rand’s type...but they will scream until they’re blue in the face if it’s something that the left also wants.
Best advice for our side - tell them $22 Billion, or whatever it ends up costing is NOTHING compared to just Social Security or Medicare...about one week of spending for either...and that builds the ENTIRE WALL. At least in my debates, the left has no retort to that...when you compare it to their favorite programs.
NM and CA are small pieces of border compared to other states.
Does the cost estimate account for money that the Feds will recoup through payroll and income taxes paid by (a) the companies and their workers who build the wall: and (b) the manufactures, suppliers, and transporters of the materials and equipment needed to build the wall?
NM is a “small border?”
Shut the F up and build it!!!! NOW!!!
It will actually save 5x that much PER YEAR, so just over President Trump’s firstt term (assuming its takes a year to build), it will save over $300 billion!
The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers (2013)
Executive Summary
This report estimates the annual costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local level to be about $113 billion; nearly $29 billion at the federal level and $84 billion at the state and local level. The study also estimates tax collections from illegal alien workers, both those in the above-ground economy and those in the underground economy. Those receipts do not come close to the level of expenditures and, in any case, are misleading as an offset because over time unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers would replace illegal alien workers.
Yeah, I low balled the number on purpose, but 5 x $21B = $105B per year, so it’s not that far off.
Tariffs are great. We need a lot more of them and massive income tax cuts.
If it is not visible from low orbit I will be disappointed.
Compared to Texas ...
I wish Pres. Trump would set up a fund that Americans can donate money for the wall. I would also like to volunteer my time for free to help in its construction.
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