So liberals would rather hire 1,000's more border patrol agents at $60,000 a year for 20 years then they get retirement payments .....
Let's go with a thousand agents. 1000 x $60,000 annual salary = $60,000,000/year. Then $60 million annually for 20 years = $1,200,000,000 (one billion, two hundred million.)
The cost for a wall is estimated at $25 billion by a Faux News statistician. So we're talking $1.2 billion over 20 years v. $25 billion immediately. Even with raises and pensions the extra agents are a bargain.
Size of the wall: 1,150 miles long; 40 feet high; 10 feet deep into the ground; 1 foot wide
Total volume of material: 11.2 million cubic yards
Materials: Approximately $8.7 billion in concrete (97 percent of the materials); approximately $3.6 billion in steel (3 percent of the materials)
Labor: Approximately $12.3 billion (given the labor costs on the original 654 miles of barriers we can assume a conservative 1:1 ratio of materials to labor)
Land acquisition: About
60 percent of the border is privately owned land. While the federal government has the power to take privately owned property for public purposes, it must provide “just compensation.” Based on
previous purchases from the 2006-2009 wall construction, the cost at most would be $300,000 per mile acquired, or approximately $200 million altogether.
In total, the actual physical cost of the wall would be about $25 billion. That sounds like a ton of money. But it isn’t just one person paying for it – the entirety of the U.S. taxpayer base would collectively foot the bill.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tru...ill-actually-cost-according-to-a-statistician
