Prove It To Me
Great Wall of America?
Great Wall?
The Great Wall of China
Background
Purpose
Construction
What Would You Do?
Impact
America's Wall
Cost
The border between Mexico and the United States is 1,954 miles long. Multiply that by 5,280 feet and get a total of 10,317,120 foot long border. Say your wall is 5 feet wide. Multiply 10,317,120 by 5 to get 51,585,600. Then say the wall is 12 feet tall. Multiply 51,585,600 by 12. This gives you 619,027,200 feet. There are 6 bricks in a sq. foot. So you then would multiply by 619,027,200 by 6 to know you need 3,714,163,200 bricks. The cost of a square foot of hollow bricks, used to build taller structures, is $25.40. Divide this by 6 to find the individual brick cost which is, $4.23. Multiply 3,714,163,200 bricks by the $4.23 cost to get the total cost of the wall: $15,710,910,336. Now you may want to know how much that is going to cost the average tax payer. There are around 122,000,000 taxpayers in America. Divide the cost by the taxpayers, and you will see that each taxpayer only has to pay $128. This can be divided into $10.66 a month for a year. So when you think about it, I suppose that that could be considered a lot, or a little amount depending on how you look at it. When you add in prisoner's free labor to build the wall, it isn't that bad of a deal for those of you wanting a wall built. You now know a more accurate Number as to what building a wall could do to your wallet. Detailed information belongs to nationalpriorities.org, usgovernmentdebt.us, home advisor.org, and Google Earth. Calculations are done personally.