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

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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/


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:42AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:42AM (#775018)

    And, we can all draft our lay-about-kids into furnishing labor.

    Why don't you hire some mexicans? They do good work and they work cheap.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:08AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:08AM (#775028) Journal

    So, you're one of those who would exploit the illegals? That's hypocritical. Besides, once that supply of cheap labor is cut off, out kids are going to need to know how to work. They need the training. Otherwise, they'll starve when we start shutting off all the welfare handouts.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:48AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:48AM (#775058)

      Oh wow. The meth hypothesis sounds compelling, as does the agent provocateur theory. If agent provocateur then this little exchange gives us some information. A draft is coming to the US soon, likely after the first skirmishes of World War 3. The media will sell it as propaganda about how enlisting in the military is the only hope for all of the incels.