Lawmaker wants to tax porn users to help fund the border wall

[kevindavis007]

A GOP lawmaker has a novel idea for how a border wall with Mexico should be funded: Force every Arizonan who wants to access pornographic material on an electronic device to pay $20.

Republican Rep. Gail Griffin, R-Hereford, has introduced House Bill 2444, which would make “distributors” of devices that allow access to the internet install software to make the offending material not viewable. To remove the blocking software, a person would have to pay the state $20.

Those distributors, which include both manufacturers and retailers, would also be able to impose their own fees for removing the blocker.

Read More: https://www.azmirror.com/2019/01/18/lawmaker-wants-to-tax-porn-users-to-help-fund-the-border-wall/

Stupid idea..

[ABX]

She could probably raise a lot more money if she puts a picture of her face all over porn sites and you have to pay to remove it.

[bigheadfred]

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

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

Some things make me laugh:

 Anti-porn troll Chris Sevier (previously) has built his career by convincing grandstanding Republican state lawmakers to introduce doomed, unconstitutional porn-tax laws that would require in-state ISPs to implement default-on censorship of "adult sites" (or, more specifically, "sites appearing an an arbitrary, unaccountable secret blacklist of allegedly adult material") and then charge $20/subscriber to turn off the filters.

This is unconstitutional and stupid, which makes it perfect for patsy state Republican lawmakers (who are like federal Republican lawmakers, but even stupider and more bigoted and less well-versed in the Constitution) to introduce, grandstand over, raise money on, and then allow to die.

The latest state Republican to field one of these bills is Rep. Gail Griffin [R-Hereford], whose HB2444, AKA the "Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act" will use the porn tax to fund Trump's wall.

Sevier wouldn't admit to Motherboard's Samantha Cole that he was behind this bill, but he did say that states customize his model legislation to suit their needs.

Hereford is the majority whip in the AZ house.

oopsies...

 

[Frank Cannon]

She could probably raise a lot more money if she puts a picture of her face all over porn sites and you have to pay to remove it.

That pic is from 40 years ago. She's even better looking now.....

[bigheadfred]

Per @Amb. Frank Cannon's pic update the money coming in should double, triple. Might even make Mexico pay for the wall.

[ABX]

Per @Amb. Frank Cannon's pic update the money coming in should double, triple. Might even make Mexico pay for the wall.

Threaten to hack any news programs in Mexico and overlay her face on all their weather girls. They'll play in a heart beat, and even offer to build it.

[bigheadfred]

Threaten to hack any news programs in Mexico and overlay her face on all their weather girls. They'll play in a heart beat, and even offer to build it.

Good idea. No American "tax" dollars. The technology is available (from what I've read).

[NavyCanDo]

I would go a long with blocking porn content software being standard, but let's do one better, and block network news as well and for the same reason it damages ones mind.

[Sanguine]

The proves the old maxim: "1/2 of people are below average."

[bigheadfred]

The proves the old maxim: "1/2 of people are below average."

You've been watching too much...

[Sighlass]

As much as I hate porn and what it has done to families and young men, the only thing worse would be letting government find out it can tax people this way... Next would be democrats taxing others to view conservative or religious content.

Besides that, it is just plain stupid, the porn sites would just have people sign up for email pictures etc.... just too many ways to bypass her plan... then what would she do, implement further restrictions.