Originally Posted by
hawkesnightmare
Building and maintaining a wall would be an enormous cost, estimated to be somewhere between $15 billion and $25 billion just to build the thing, not including excavation, land acquisition and maintenance, with the total cost estimated to be >$30 billion for construction and another $2.2 billion/year in maintenance and personnel management. Who's gonna foot that bill? Mexico? They've stated repeatedly that they will do no such thing, and are more than willing to walk away from various ongoing and future negotiations with the US if the issue is forced. So if not Mexico, then who? Where in the US budget is this money going to be pulled from? The only portion of the US budget that wouldn't be crippled from this is military spending, which needs to be cut back already.
Take it out of foreign aid. You could pay upfront and have 10b to spare. I can also guarantee the military budget will be reduced, Obamas was spending ridiculous amount on other countries conflicts, Trump only wants to take on ISIS, not defend the people he's shipping nuclear weapons to. (Obama was sending nuclear warheads to Iran, trump is heavily against nuclear weaponry).
@Perfect
Spending money stimulates the economy. Workers are paid for making the wall, they spend the money they earn on goods and services, providers of these goods and services receive this money, they use it to pay their workers, etc.
Last edited by kendrikLMR; Jan 26, 2017 at 11:44 PM.
