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As President Donald Trump threatened to allow a government shutdown if Congress did not provide funding for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a Republican congressman from Ohio offered up alternative routes to getting the wall built: through Internet crowdfunding or through an initial coin offering.
During an interview with NPR's Morning Edition on December 12, Rep. Warren Davidson said that he had offered what he referred to as a "modest proposal" in the form of his "Buy a Brick, Build a Wall Act." The bill, which he submitted on November 30, would authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to accept monetary gifts from anyone "on the condition that it be used to plan, design, construct, or maintain a barrier along the international border between the United States and Mexico." The funds would go into an account called the "Border Wall Trust Fund," and a public website would be set up to process donations electronically.
Rep. Davidson told NPR's Steve Inskeep that the donations could come from anyone and be gathered in a number of ways."You could do it with this sort of, like, crowdfunding site," Davidson explained. "Or you could do it with blockchain—you could have Wall Coins."
Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/ohio-congressman-we-can-fund-border-wall-with-wallcoin/
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:10AM
(cont) By the way, BIG THANKS to our Supreme Court. And to my good friend, President Clinton. Bill Clinton. Because in 1996, Bill signed the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Saying my A. G. can skip the environmental -- they call it the Waiver -- so we can protect our Boarders. We can skip the Endangered Species Act. And skip the National Environmental Policy Act. I'm a big fan of environment, and I've won many awards for environment. But our National Security is so important. Well, the environment folks went to SC and said, don't let President Trump skip the environmental. Make him do the environmental for the Wall. And SC told them, "go away." And this, by the way, was on December 3rd. So when we get the money -- whether it comes from Western Union or from the Wall Coin or whatever -- we can get back to building that Wall VERY QUICKLY. Without regard to the so-called endangered species or to the anything!!!!