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struggle4progress

(118,236 posts) Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:16 PM Feb 2017

Deportation plan could cost half a trillion

John W. Schoen
6 Hours Ago

... Until there are more details of the plan, much of which will require congressional approval, estimates are sketchy. But by any full accounting, the fiscal and economic costs would be huge ...

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/24/trumps-deportation-plan-could-cost-half-a-trillion-dollars.html

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Deportation plan could cost half a trillion (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP

Doesn't include the costs of his "Great Wall" or his planned military build up - nor his "tax cuts" Pachamama Feb 2017 #1

$620 billion in wasteful spending + removing millions Charles Bukowski Feb 2017 #2

Pachamama

(16,884 posts)

1. Doesn't include the costs of his "Great Wall" or his planned military build up - nor his "tax cuts"

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:28 PM

Feb 2017

Disgusting....

Charles Bukowski

(1,132 posts)

2. $620 billion in wasteful spending + removing millions

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:35 PM

Feb 2017

of workers from the US economy = massive recession.

Republicans have a natural gift for turning everything they touch into shit, but even they'd balk at this insanity.

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