Will A Wall Be Worth The Cost? – IOTW Report

Will A Wall Be Worth The Cost?

The left scoffs at the very mention of building a wall to keep unwanted arrivals out.  They’ll tell you it will never work, that they’ll still get in anyway.  That’s not the point.  The critical question is whether a physical barrier can stop enough unwanted people from coming here to justify putting it up in the first place.  The only way to answer that is to do a cost/ benefit analysis.

The Center for Immigration Studies did the calculations and concluded that the wall pays for itself if it prevents a mere “9 to 12 percent of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade — the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.

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Prepare for the left to shift their anti-wall narrative to how cruel and emotionally painful it is for a wall to go up on our Southern border. Why just image how traumatizing it will be to our fellow North Americans to be told they’re not welcome to just help themselves to our country anytime they want.

29 Comments on Will A Wall Be Worth The Cost?

  1. Democrats say we can’t cut taxes because there won’t be any revenue to pay for everything. That’s the crux of it all. Right now they believe legal and illegal immigrants add a benefit to the underlying economy with higher revenue through taxes since everyone consumes.

    Precisely why taxes need to be cut and the wall built ASAP.

    The democrats will never look at the fat to cut first, instead they look at ways of obtaining additional income on the backs of taxpayers to keep the fat in place. The ONLY way to get them to so much as look at cutting fat is to forcibly take away the revenue. Build the wall and cut the taxes. Nothing will get done until then.

  2. Let’s throw away the idea of Mexico paying for the wall and the complexities of cost of illegal immigration on our social services, medical care, schooling for a second.

    If 63,000,000 Americans voted for Trump and the cost of the wall is $15,000,000,000, it would cost each of those voters $238.

    Where do I send the check?

  3. @uncle al.
    You would be shocked at how little nuclear waste exists.
    I toured Virginia’s North Anna nuclear power plant a few years back. It’s been online since 1978 providing power to millions. The nuke waste fit on an acre. I was dumbfounded.

  4. @uncle al. I’ll concede your point. But media reports make one think that we are awash with radioactive waste. I think it’s overblown.

    Sorry. Not looking to thread Jack.

    Build that wall. Sell bricks with people’s dedications on them.

  5. A bit skeptical of the wall myself. If we had the will (shoot on sight) to keep the invaders out, the wall would be helpful but not necessary. Without the will to keep invaders out, we may as well add handicap ramps to the wall so people in wheelchairs can get over too.

  6. The leftist communist democrats weighing in with an opinion on the cost of anything is a joke. These are the morons that can’t add that put us $20T in debt. Try explaining to these mental patients that illegal aliens cost us billions of $$$ and it goes in one ear and out the other. Since when do these communist collectivists ever care in the least about the cost of one of their pet save-the-world stupid SJW ideas? They have been discredited on fiscal and finance issues and should just shut their mouths as they crawl back into their parents’ basement or barn.

  7. Exactly, the left only cares about overspending when it comes to defending sovereignty and tradition. Parts of the wall will be secured technologically. Please put our military down there. They would do phenominal on our borders. They’d save us money, not be subjected to unions (UCMJ), and most importantly, they’d be the best capable and would serve honorably. I know. I was in the military as a boarding officer with the US Coast Guard. It can be done, we just need congress to act.

  8. Build the dang wall, already!! We voted for it. That’s what we want. And it will not only work to keep illegal Mexicans and their drugs out, it will also keep Hamas, ISIS, and those other creeps out. It’s a no-brainer. The Left is evil if they think that there is an acceptable number of Americans who can be murdered, raped, habituated to opiates, tortured in a night club or blown up in a public square.

  9. The wall needs to exist because of principle.
    It is the Bad Cop, the Statue of Liberty being the Good Cop
    We need to build it because it changes the patterns of behavior of our adversaries, hopefully into areas we anticipated.
    We need it to stop the smuggling deaths, the trash, the Coyotes who leave the weak to die.
    We also need viewing towers where a man can see the other side and be glad of his circumstance

  10. Build the wall, but leave occasional small, low spots with shooting benches 200 yards away and charge American citizens fees for target practice. That should cover any maintenance costs.

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