Arizona GOP Lawmaker Wants To Pay For Border Wall By Taxing Porn

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Arizona House Rep. Gail Griffin (R) wants the next Arizonian who logs on for some risqué web browsing to pony up for a border wall against Mexico.

According to the Arizona Mirror, Griffin recently introduced a House bill that would require tech manufacturers to install software on Internet-accessible devices that would block pornography until the user pays $20.

All the money would go to what the bill calls the “John McCain Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Fund.” The fund would allocate grants for the state to “build a border wall between Mexico and this state or fund border security,” among other purposes.

Needless to say, the bill probably isn’t going anywhere.

“It’s pretty clearly unconstitutional,” Mike Stabile, a spokesman for the Free Speech Coalition, told the Mirror.

The bill seems connected to conservative lawyer Chris Sevier, who has attempted to push similar bills in more than a dozen other states. His bizarre record also includes: suing Democrats for flying pride flags, fighting gay marriage by repeatedly trying to marry his laptop and suing Apple for letting porn ruin his marriage.

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  1. According to the Arizona Mirror, Griffin recently introduced a House bill that would require tech manufacturers to install software on Internet-accessible devices that would block pornography until the user pays $20.

    Anything with mules or circus midgets is an extra fiver.
  2. Well , as Repukes down load it through their subsidised expense accounts …

  3. Presumably only Mexican porn, though.

  4. Now having a wall entirely paid for by the GOP deplorable base, and their elected officials is worth considering.

  5. I suppose the $20 was decided on as being easily affordable to most televangelists.

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