Arizona is tired of migrants and is ready to introduce an unusual tax for the wall at the border

Arizona's Republican legislator believes that the tax on watching films for adults can help a country raise the billions of dollars needed to build the border wall, thereby completing the protracted US government shutdown.

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Gail Griffin, representing the Hereford area, offers to charge $ 20 every time viewers intend to watch piquant content on the Internet, writes The Daily Mail. She proposed a bill to the House of Representatives in Arizona.

If passed, the law should force manufacturers of electronic devices to install software that blocks such content. To remove the lock, users will have to prove that they have turned 18 years old, and pay 20 dollars to Arizona commercial management. Then the money will be transferred to a new account of the John McCain Foundation for Countering Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation.

Funds raised will be used for a number of purposes, the main one being “construction of a border wall between Mexico and [Arizona] or border security.”

These finances could also provide grants for organizations concerned with mental health, temporary housing, school districts and law enforcement.

The proposal appears to have been inspired by a similar idea floated in March by a prominent anti-gay activist. Then the initiator claimed that he was going to get married on his own laptop - this is how he protested against the legalization of same-sex marriage. The claim was rejected.

Similar pay-per-view adult movie and video offers were previously presented in Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Utah, Rhode Island and South Carolina. None of them passed. Civil liberties groups and adult entertainment proponents have denounced these proposals as unconstitutional.

The only difference between this last offer in Arizona and all the previous ones is that the current one provides funding for the border wall.

In March, one of the proposals for targeting online content on trafficking and adult films, called Elizabeth Smart's Law, meant installing a filter that can be shot for 20 dollars. But Smart herself, who, as a teenager in 2002, was the victim of abduction, categorically forbade using her name for such purposes.

Despite the problems and conflicts between the initiators of laws and constitutional rights defenders, similar bills continue to appear in state legislatures. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which opposes this idea, this year tracked about two dozen of such bills in the 18 state legislatures, none of which were passed.

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