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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:27AM (4 children)
Oh look, it's the fucking moron who doesn't see the connection between the first part of his statement and the second part.
I bet you leave the front door to your house wide fucking open.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:02AM (3 children)
I bet you're a dumbass! The connection as an inverse relationship. Fewer fences, better life. Killing the psychos makes it more likely to happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:23AM
I mean, just look how peaceful Israel became after they tore down that wall!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:29PM (1 child)
Citation needed. If that were true, farmers and ranchers would want to tear down all their fences, and the suburbanites would thank them for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @05:10AM
farmers and ranchers would want to tear down all their fences
Oh no, they need their fences, to keep them coyotes out. Each one of them can carry five Mexicans on their back.