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Why no Go Fund Me campaign for the wall?
1/26/18 | inchworm

Posted on 01/26/2018 1:35:44 PM PST by inchworm

If congress in the past has authorized a border wall but there is no funding, why doesn't Trump just start a Go Fund Me campaign for the wall? Does anybody know if it would be legal. My bet is he would get all the money he needs in less than 30 days. And he would not need to negotiate on DACA. And if a Go Fund Me Campaign is legal or some other donation format is legal how can we get thie pitched to the Whitehouse?


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To: inchworm
My bet is he would get all the money he needs in less than 30 days.

Raise $21 billion in 30 days? :-)

It would indeed be an interesting exercise to see how much support there actually is for a wall (or lack of support). Why don't you start it?

21 posted on 01/26/2018 1:51:13 PM PST by plain talk
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To: inchworm
I like the idea. A "We The People" wall !👍
22 posted on 01/26/2018 1:52:38 PM PST by nevermorelenore ( I miss Reagan i)
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To: inchworm

If every American citizen pitched in just $10, let me do the math, oh crap.


23 posted on 01/26/2018 1:57:26 PM PST by dangerdoc
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To: inchworm

Better to do like march of dimes- get the youngers involved


24 posted on 01/26/2018 1:57:32 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: madison10

Set up a PAC or a non-profit and plaster social media with a paypal link.


25 posted on 01/26/2018 2:00:28 PM PST by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.)
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To: inchworm
I did this one this morning and put it on Twitter
26 posted on 01/26/2018 2:00:32 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: plain talk

I can’t start it. It would need to be the whitehouse as they’d need to be the steward of the spending. As for those who say Congress should fund it....I think at this point most, on this topic, most of us say to hell with Congress and stop the delay.


27 posted on 01/26/2018 2:03:08 PM PST by inchworm
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To: inchworm

There is no Go Fund Me page for the Trump Wall because NONE IS ALLOWED! They tried to set one up, and it was taken down by the company.


28 posted on 01/26/2018 2:03:31 PM PST by 2harddrive
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To: inchworm

Seriously, someone with power here need to be able to pitch this idea to the whitehouse.


29 posted on 01/26/2018 2:04:52 PM PST by inchworm
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To: 2harddrive

Then the Whitehouse can open their own non profit and website to get the funding,. Go fund me or whatever....


30 posted on 01/26/2018 2:06:08 PM PST by inchworm
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To: inchworm

We don’t need no thought control. /s


31 posted on 01/26/2018 2:07:27 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: inchworm
Does anybody know if it would be legal.

The U.S. Constitution says (Article I, section 9, clause 7) that "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law."

32 posted on 01/26/2018 2:08:23 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: inchworm
I can’t start it. It would need to be the whitehouse as they’d need to be the steward of the spending. As for those who say Congress should fund it....I think at this point most, on this topic, most of us say to hell with Congress and stop the delay.

Yeah that makes sense. I doubt Congress will ever completely fund the wall. Thus a GoFundMe would be an interesting exercise to see how much interest there is out there for building a wall. Let people put their money where their mouth is so to speak.

33 posted on 01/26/2018 2:08:38 PM PST by plain talk
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To: inchworm

Has anyone thought this through??

90% of ALL the Controlled Substances not available by prescription enter the United States from our Southern Border.

75% of every law enforcement agency in the country are employed as a direct result of the War on Drugs

75% plus of ALL criminal cases are Drug Related.

We have Millions and Millions of Government employee union members employed as a direct result of the War on Drugs

Thousands and Thousands of Judges, Clerks, Court Houses, Prisons, Prison Guards, Lawyers,Probation and Parole Officers, Hundreds of thousands of Tax payer funded Drug Programs.... ALL will disappear overnight

If we Build the Wall, what happens to all the Millions of Drug Warriors across this country?? What type of work will they do if we win the War on Drugs by building a Wall?? What about the $50Billion in Tax Dollars, will we get that back? DO you think we will just abolish the DEA??

Remember the War on Drugs Started with Henry Anslinger after prohibition was ended and he was about to be an unemployed Prohibition Enforcer for the US Gubmint

The Wall will NOT be built, there is No Way in Hell we will end the War on Drugs by winning, there is way too much money involved here.

ps My wife has a green card, I am in SoCal and I not only want the wall built, I want every last Illegal ALien deported yesterday.


34 posted on 01/26/2018 2:09:25 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Ros42

GFM to help our troops yes - building wall NO.

Tax the remittances to pay for the wall.


35 posted on 01/26/2018 2:13:15 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: inchworm

Or a Kick starter, and for premiums you’d get lawn work done by illegals on their way back home.


36 posted on 01/26/2018 2:13:56 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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LOL We'll be lucky to get $10 million in GoFundMe let alone $20 Billion!!!
37 posted on 01/26/2018 2:14:26 PM PST by KavMan
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To: inchworm

Good idea.

Send the idea to White House . Gov/ contact


38 posted on 01/26/2018 2:23:33 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: gubamyster

The Mexican government and the drug cartels would steal the gold bricks. Much like the gold spike that connected the cross country railroad.


39 posted on 01/26/2018 2:24:11 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: inchworm

$2415.00 so far

https://www.gofundme.com/profile/mark-muller-w4dit

How do we know it is legit?

I wish Franklin Graham would run it so we could donate with confidence that the money would for sure go to the cause…


40 posted on 01/26/2018 2:33:11 PM PST by CalTexan
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