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2018-12-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Dems Are Threatened By The Possibility Of A Citizen-Funded Border Wall. Here's What They Just Did.

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-24 01:56|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 So instead of a wall, hire mercs on Mexican side to patrol and 'discourage' people.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-12-24 07:24|| 2018-12-24 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Citizen-Funded Border Wall

Where's the graft in that?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-24 07:36|| 2018-12-24 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems the only way "citizen-raised funds" not collected through the tax system can be equated with "taxpayer funds" is if any money you personally possess is defined as "taxpayer funds" because you also payed taxes.

I can see Justice Roberts grinning vacantly and nodding affirmative...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-24 08:44|| 2018-12-24 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 An empty gesture. It will be DOA in the Senate and White House.

Posted by Vortigern Elmusotle7351 2018-12-24 11:23|| 2018-12-24 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 There ought to be plenty of money for a wall. Find the $6bin Hillary (ahem) lost at State, the money missing from the Haiti earthquake relief fund, the tax money that should have come from running a for-profit CF, $14 billion seized from El Chapo's drug dealing (as recommended by Cruz.) There are most likely plenty of other such bake sales that would build a secure wall and border. What was saved from the new USMC agreement? How about the money saved by asking NATO to cough up? How about the money that would come from maintaining troops and weapons in Syria and Afghanistan? The closed down grab-a$$ congressional fund--another $15mil.

Congress is just diddling around to try to make us think they do something useful.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-12-24 12:21|| 2018-12-24 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 There is a real logistical and legal issue with citizen crowdsource funding for this. Any donations, contributions, etc. to the government has to be made to the department of the treasury. Any funds done so go into the "General Usage" pool and the money can be spent on anything.

There would have to be a separate law and system set up for the government to use those funds directly for a wall.

And as P2K said, "Where is the graft in that?"

Posted by DarthVader 2018-12-24 13:08|| 2018-12-24 13:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Won’t bringing home our troops from Syria free up some funds? Not to mention other areas where the president has quietly reduced spending — a million here, a million there...

Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-24 15:36|| 2018-12-24 15:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Trump should just create a 1933 mile by 1000 ft US military base on the southern border. All funds needed for appropriate base protection would them come out of the DoD budget.

Posted by Airandee 2018-12-24 15:41|| 2018-12-24 15:41|| Front Page Top

#9 ...the first mile of incorporated land this side of the border can be reclassified as a military zone.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-24 16:24|| 2018-12-24 16:24|| Front Page Top

#10 oops... unincorporated ....

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-24 16:31|| 2018-12-24 16:31|| Front Page Top

#11 I hate the democrat party almost more than anything in the Universe.

They are a pile of floating garbage in the ocean, contaminating everything their useless paws can touch.

No Virtue, no Morals, no code.

When I take control, they will be removed from governance wholesale.

Worthless assholes.

Posted by newc 2018-12-24 16:32|| 2018-12-24 16:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Ref #11: Just a short list of their finer points.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-24 18:27|| 2018-12-24 18:27|| Front Page Top

#13 I do not need you "governing" if you are not providing for the security of OUR Citizens.

I have a Command for Nation States so we won't all suck at the same time and it also comes down to accountability to your local,legal, Citizens.

Others are Foreign Nationals with their own laws.
Not OURS.

Posted by newc 2018-12-24 20:45|| 2018-12-24 20:45|| Front Page Top

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