Analysis | Three economists ran the numbers on Trump’s border wall. They find it’s a bad investment.

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Analysis: Three economists ran the numbers on Trump’s border wall. They find it’s a bad investment.

 

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No kidding

And yet - even with Trump’s campaign manager blatantly sharing polling data with our sworn enemies... you still lead with this. I guess we never learn... and that’s why we have Trump in the first place

Why do you keep lying lying lying and telling fake fake News why do you hate our country so much

Math is for liberals

135 billion in welfare for illegals......5 billion for a wall....indeed! I think they are right. They must be doing that new math. BuildTheWall2019

Oh. So let spend $150B a year instead. 🤔

did any of them vote republican? FakeNewsMedia

That's what he specializes in: bad deals that he thinks are great.

How dumb is this article Do you really think this is an investment with an ROI Its to protect our country and I would believe there has to be savings from an efficiently operated border and border security

DaniCountryman KateSteinle MollieTibbetts MadisonWells AmandaFerguson & more. And now RIPRonilSingh. All dead by illegals, and YOU. Security is fed gov's 1 job! Stop being complicit in rape and murder, propagandists. byHeatherLong

So protecting the citizens of the USA is now a bad investment? What the hell are y'all smoking?

I wonder if these are same 2 economists that predicted an economic colopse if trump gets elected? Also do these bozos know more than the men and women that have been working at the border for 20 years?

Supporting illegal aliens over American citizens is a bad investment.

Hates Americans. ☝️

Hard to believe the Analyst are expecting monetary returns on what is expected to provide physical security and protection of human life. In the big picture the study was identifying price on what happens at the border illegally. There is a process for all that to happen legal.

Yeah no shit

It’s a good investment for pooti boy Roman Abramovich’s steel company if trump uses them to make his “steel slats” continuing the money laundering biz to russians that trump started back in his casino days.

What the hell do economists know about border security

We spend almost $9000.00 per illegal alien in the US. I think that’s a BAD investment!

Duh

Is America's security a bad investment?

Are these the same economists that predicted a deep recession in 2017 after Trump was elected?

Build the wall

Lol sure. I guess a great investment will be bringing in 250k in per month

Asking Paul Krugman three times doesn't count.

no shit? any real news?

😂

Since walls don’t work, lets take down wall/barrier from San Diego, Yuma, Texas!!! can we also take down walls around homes of Pelosi, Schummer, Obama, etc. Why did Schummer & Obama demand “barriers” in 2006 & 2009

Don’t care. No more talk. Border Security. Now!

If he agrees to call it the Emperors New Wall, I say we give it to him.

% billion for the wall will save 100 Bil;lion EVERY year! The Vaunted WaPo is simply unable to tell the whole story. Dosn't fit the democrat party narrative.

That’s the case with literally everything the govt does. The only difference here is we get a little added security along a highly porous border.

Just build the wall! Our govt wastes more then that on toilet seats in a year.

That is what my global economist wife have been saying. Now think of how much it is going to coast to repair and maintain it. It is stupid. As dumb as Space Force because you can not detonate ordinances in Space. It will do damage to other space craft like Sats. Drones are the 🔑

We spend $15 billion per year alone for illegal alien health care. It's well worth it.

No shit

Build a 10' x 10' wall on the border. Put 'TRUMP' in big letters on it. Take a picture. Do some Photoshop to make it look like it expands for miles either direction. Send Trump the picture. Shutdown over; everyone wins.

This doesn't surprise me. Trump the businessman went bankrupt 4 or 5 times and as president he's trying to do the same with the country.

DEM LIES....

The wall is a solution to a problem that doesnt exist. Illegals come here legally and just stay, they don't jump borders.

Were all three economists democrats Failed WaPo so ridiculous and laughable. This is America’s wall !

When asked about the walls around their homes they found it to be a good investment

Yeah, where are we supposed to get cheap labor now?

Anyone with half a brain knows that already. Illegals will just tunnel underneath any wall/fence, sail around it, blow it up, come on a Greyhound bus (to visit Disneyland, for example) and never leave the U.S., etc. A fence won't keep out illegals if they really want to enter.

bmaya8 'The benefits of the wall.. do not outweigh the costs'

Three what? Economists? You mean those people who couldn't see the financial crisis coming? Riiiiigghht

Is it about the money? Or about lives?

is there a CBO score/analysis? probably not because Trump's wall is ever changing wall/concrete/slats/steel/barrer...

Number 1, they are wrong! Number 2, if the wall saves the life of even 1 more American citizen, it is totally worth it! How many American citizens have been murdered by illegal immigrants? You and your so called economists are full of shit and treasonous!

LoL!

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Then they're not very bright.

It’s free money for his mining corporate friends that will be enriched for the steel. Protect Aki🌎 No mining!

Trump is a serial bankrupt business man.. he’s using his best effort to bankrupt America!!

It would have been fine if Mexico had paid...

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