Republican Arizona lawmaker revives doomed "porn tax" to fund Trump's doomed border-wall

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/22/rep-gail-griffin.html

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Which means…we really need a hacker to expose this guys browser history.

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Using a $20 fee to fund the border wall would require almost every single man, woman, and child in the US to pay it to fund the wall. This of course assumes that every other aspect of the plan is free.

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Does this make the border wall a pile of wank?

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Republicans will never understand:

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Ordinarily I’m skeptical of the “self-hating closeted-gay Republicans” meme, but this guy is a real piece of work…

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Ha ha, Arizona in the stupid news, again.

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They should give it to porn creators to offset piracy.

And speaking of human trafficking, that’s what forcing federal employees to work without pay is.

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All the assembly lines at Foxconn suddenly shut down.
Foreman: “Back it up, boys. We gotta put in a porn filter in case these go to Arizona.”

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…and stat…

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A Trump representative showed up at my door the other day and asked if he could check my couch for loose change. I, of course, said hell no. Then he asked to check my browser history. I said, GTFO. On that, he produced a handful of Cheetos dust, blew it into my eyes, and ran away screaming: we know your browser history anyway!

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That wouldn’t build a fraction of the wall. It might, if all the lawyers and engineers work for free because freedom. And if nothing goes wrong. And if this Federal project encounters no cost overruns. And if they bump it up to about $20 per porn.

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What is the SI unit of Porn? How much porn is 1pn?

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A miliwank?

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Here’s my idea. The wall gets fully funded only after the passage of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan.

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So, still never then? Just as well. The wall is fucking stupid.

ETA the problem with a wall is that no matter how high you build it, someone will find away over, under, or around it. But a dome…

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My calculation was simple. 325,000,000 (approx population of the US) * $20 == $6.5 Billion. Trump shut down the government over a $5 Billion budget request (plus or minus, he hasn’t always been consistent with the figure), which is close enough for government work.

Of course $5 Billion won’t cover the cost of the wall as proposed, but it would theoretically get the government back open again.

And of course I’m expecting everybody to get the absurdity of asking kindergartners to fork over $20 to unblock internet porn.

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Something tells me the firewall won’t be any more effective than the actual wall.

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The perfect headline:

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