
Why Border Walls Fail
Sep 18, 2015 explains why frontier fortifications usually turn out to be an extraordinarily bad investment.
Reece Jones, a professor of geography at the University of Hawaii – Manoa, is the author of Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel and the forthcoming The Violence of Borders.
Sep 18, 2015 explains why frontier fortifications usually turn out to be an extraordinarily bad investment.
To help finance its massive post-pandemic infrastructure investment package, US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to increase corporate taxes and reduce the scope for profit-shifting by US-based multinationals. Although the proposed tax changes are likely to face opposition from congressional Republicans and big business, are any of the alternatives better?