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Ohio Congressman: We Can Fund Border Wall with “WallCoin”

posted by mrpg on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:05PM   
from the Buy-a-Brick,-Build-a-Wall-Act dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

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/

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• Re:Wasn't Mexico supposed to pay for it ? (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:06AM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:06AM (#774974) Journal

  https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=29107&page=1&cid=774973#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]

  You can scroll up - or I can just quote myself here:

  Before Bush, or Dubya, took office, the estimate was twenty million. That same twenty million has floated around, all through his administration, then Obama's administration. Try to get a grip on that. BEFORE BUSH, during the Clinton years, both parties acknowledged that there were 20 million illegals.

  Every single year since then, the illegals have been coming in. One year, there are more, next year there are fewer, then there are more again.

  I call bullshit on all of it. Given that there were already twenty million, and they've continued to pour into the country since then, I'm calling it fifty million. Your paltry ten million is either an outright lie, or total ignorance. Your choice - I'm not just going to call you a liar.

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