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Alabama Has A Plan To Allow Tax Refunds Help Pay For The Border Wall

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Jason Hopkins on March 22, 2019

A bill that would allow taxpayers to donate a part of their refunds to a nonprofit collecting money to build more border wall has successfully passed the Alabama State Senate.

In a vote that fell along party lines, Alabama state senators voted 23-6 Thursday in favor of SB 22. The legislation would add We Build The Wall Inc. to a list of about 20 groups and programs on state income tax forms that residents can check off and donate with their tax refunds.

“I think it's a way for Alabamians to say to the president and to the nation that we think strong border security is important. We want to promote that. We want Washington to build that wall,” GOP Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, the bill's sponsor, stated according to The Associated Press.

“This bill is about sending a message to Washington that we support President Trump and his mission to secure our southern border,” Marsh said, who is mulling a 2020 U.S. Senate bid.

We Build The Wall — which began in December as a viral GoFundMe campaign by Air Force veteran and triple amputee Brian Kolfage — is a nonprofit group that is raising money for wall construction on the U.S.-Mexico border. The GoFundMe page is nearing $21,000,000 in donations.

However, the legislation may be more symbolic than anything else. Before funds from We Build The Wall can be used, Congress must vote to allow the money to be directed to the Department of Homeland Security. Given that the Democratic Party controls the House of Representatives, this is unlikely to happen in the immediate future.

The private contributions are rolling in as President Donald Trump continues to fight for more wall funding. Trump signed into law a resolution that gave him $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of barrier on the Texas border. He then declared a national emergency that has allowed him a total of $8 billion in funding, but numerous progressive groups are suing his emergency declaration in court.

The president, in his latest budget proposal, is asking for an additional $8.6 billion in wall funding.

Back in Alabama, local Democrats derided SB 22, which will later be voted on by the state House.

“What about the Northern border? More people are crossing over the Northern border but you don't want to pay them any attention,” Alabama state Sen. Bobby Singleton, a Democrat who called the measure a “feel good” bill, said according to AP. (RELATED: Overwhelmed ICE Facilities Forced To Release 100,000 Illegal Aliens In Past Three Months)

Singleton's comments are technically correct. Over 960 people were discovered to have illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border in 2018, representing a 91 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. However, that number remains a minuscule fraction of the apprehensions taking place on the U.S.-Mexico border, where border officials expect to find nearly 100,000 foreign nationals in the month of March alone.

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TPcat78

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Hot dawg. Totally missed hearing about this, this past week. (got overlooked and buried in the avalanche of the Mule-ear stories).

Wished we could skip the middle man (IRS), and directly donate whatever taxes we owe towards the wall.
 
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It's what happens when you miss a few days visiting Conservative Angle! ;)
True..

The media and websites don't help either, when they don't report stories.. or keep them quiet by releasing small tiny-print blurbs that you'd have to find with a magnifying glass.. buried on page 7 below a giant sofa & mattress sale advertisement.
*(old newspaper joke)

But seriously this is what I've been complaining about for a long time. Stuff doesn't get talked about online/TV/Radio.. and down the invisible memory hole it goes.
 
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