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Originally Posted by lakerslive
Costing USA for annual illegals.. $100 billion a year
Building a the wall will cost.. $13 billion a year (even if we pay for it so we don't damage existing relationship with mexico which could reduce our trade deficit from $58 billion)
Existing border security costs $12 billion a year
(My estimate for maintaining the new "wall" should be $12 billion a year as it shouldnt be more than the current border costs but thats worst case..another 12 billion yearly..so $24 billion a year maintenance cost on this new wall + one time fee of 13 billion a year.)
if it will reduce that $100 billion a year to..lets say, even at $50 billion a year minimum (worst case i hope). The wall will pay for itself easily while not hurting the $58 billion trade deficit between Mexico and US
Then its a better deal and reduce to future bad eggs from hatching and any ripple effects that illegals cost us tax payers/ families
ex: illegals - theft, murder, accidents, medical expenses..
So my verdict on this is.
STOP insulting mexico (because they will not pay for it) so our trade deficit with them will stay same at $58 billion
Just have tax payers pay a one time fee of $13 billion + $24 billion annual fee (worst case)
Reduce the illegals costing the US from $100 billion to $50 billion (hoping). They need to research how much these border' megawalls" save countries first to validate idea
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Can I ask where the $100bn cost comes from. A source for the data and what the $100bn consists of ?
Just asking.
And to put that expenditure into perspective (if the data is vaild)
Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Linda Bilmes of Harvard University, have stated the total costs of the Iraq War on the US economy will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario, described in their book The Three Trillion Dollar War and possibly more in the most recent published study, published in March 2008.[10] Stiglitz has stated: "The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions...Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the United States. It does not reflect the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq."[10]
A 2013 updated study[11] pointed out that U.S. medical and disability claims for veterans after a decade of war had risen to $134.7 billion from $33 billion two years earlier.