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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,996 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:50 PM Jan 2017

Trump's wall could cost an estimated $120 per US household

If U.S. taxpayers front the Trump administration's border wall, the average household could owe $120.

The U.S.-Mexico border barrier that President Donald Trump pushed forward with this week could cost a projected $15 billion, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. That bill would come out to $120 per household, based on the latest Census date of U.S. households, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Trump has repeatedly insisted that Mexico will pay for the project, over the assertions of Mexico's president that America's southern neighbor will not fund the wall. Without an alternative funding method, the bill could fall on taxpayers.

The White House on Thursday floated a 20 percent border tax as a possible method to pay for the wall. Still, that could also pass costs along to consumers, as some goods would become more expensive.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/trumps-wall-could-cost-an-estimated-dollar120-per-us-household/ar-AAmjTaJ?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Trump's wall could cost an estimated $120 per US household (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 OP
Trump is nuts....my apologies to other nuts.. Stuart G Jan 2017 #1
I'd pay twice that for a wall around Donald Trump. Rollo Jan 2017 #2
It will cost a lot more than $120. Charles Bukowski Jan 2017 #3
I wonder how many people voted for Trump marlakay Jan 2017 #4
Assuming the price stays at 15 billion. I read that it would be probably be 38 to 40 billion. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2017 #5
No thanks, I want my Obamacare. no_hypocrisy Jan 2017 #6
That does not assume the ongoing cost of tariffs and isolation. liberal N proud Jan 2017 #7

Stuart G

(38,427 posts)
1. Trump is nuts....my apologies to other nuts..
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:55 PM
Jan 2017

like peanuts, almonds, cashews, and pumpkin seeds, (often thought of as nuts)..and all other nuts in the world to be compared with Drumpf

 

Charles Bukowski

(1,132 posts)
3. It will cost a lot more than $120.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:07 PM
Jan 2017

The flimsy ass fence we have now cost between $3-4 million per mile. A concrete wall will cost a hell of a lot more.

marlakay

(11,468 posts)
4. I wonder how many people voted for Trump
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:09 PM
Jan 2017

Thinking he is just playing to his base he won't build a wall or really do anything bad.

I actually heard that during the election.

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