It's already up to 18 million raised.



I'm gonna say it - this country (or at least some living here and probably living in Russia too...and including the media) have lost their fucking minds.

it's actual money because there are fees involved that the site collects for itself (as its business model).

We had that case here in Philly area that was discovered to be a scam, where a homeless man had claimed to have given a motorist his last $20 when she ran out of gas... and then the story went national and they raised over $400,000 in a GoFundMe to help him. Find out later that they all helped themselves and the gig was up when the woman and her boyfriend (who was in on it) refused to give the homeless guy the rest of his "cut", he blew the whistle, and all 3 of them were arrested.

GoFundMe eventually refunded everyone who contributed.

especially since the scammers in the case here spent quite a bit of the money already... but GoFundMe actually refunded the givers and I assume will go about collecting restitution via the courts.

How to Build Trump’s Wall - Privatize It

Republicans have often found a way to tax people surreptitiously by privatizing many public works projects to corporations rather than have gov’t pay for it. A fee/toll is a tax under another name.

The corporations/investors are granted a multi-year license with a guaranteed profit.

This could also be done with Trump’s Wall with Mexico.

Corporations/investors front the money to build it and they will be paid by Mexico.

It gives republicans a chance to save the gov’t money by investing in it and show their confidence in Trump’s word that Mexico will pay for it .

No gov’t backed bonds.

No cost to the gov’t,,, no need for taxes,,, profit for the patriotic investors who believe in Trump.

Win win all around.

Even Trump can show his patriotism and shrewd business savvy by investing in it.

That's where "their confidence in Trump’s word" comes in.

But without the involvement of the American taxpayer.

And use that as a reason to keep denying wall funding.

and the republicans Russian owned NRA can pay for the rest of the Republican 'for profit' concentration death-camps for babies.