Gail Griffin, an Arizona state legislator, wants to tax pornography in order to raise money for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border

An Arizona state legislator says taxing pornography could raise the necessary billions of dollars needed to build a border wall and end the federal government shutdown.

Gail Griffin, a Republican lawmaker who represents the district of Hereford, wants to charge $20 each time viewers want to watch porn online.

She proposed a bill in the Arizona House of Representatives that would force manufacturers of electronic devices to install software that blocks porn.

In order to lift the block, users would have to prove they are over the age of 18 and pay $20 to the Arizona Commerce Authority, according to the Arizona Republic.

The money would then be collected into a new account called the ‘John McCain Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Fund.’

McCain was the longtime U.S. Senator from Arizona who died in August from brain cancer.

The funds raised would be used for a number of goals, chief among them ‘building a border wall between Mexico and [Arizona] or fund border security.’

It would also give grants for mental health services, temporary housing, school districts, and law enforcement.

Griffin, a Republican lawmaker who represents the district of Hereford, wants to charge anyone who logs onto the internet to look at porn $20. The above image is a stock photo of a man watching adult films on his computer

The proposal appears to be inspired by a similar idea raised in March by a prominent anti-gay activist who tried to marry his laptop to protest the legalization of same-sex weddings.

Similar proposals have been submitted targeting pornography in Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Utah, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. None of them have passed.

But civil liberties groups and advocates for the adult entertainment industry have denounced the proposals as unconstitutional.

The only difference between this latest proposal in Arizona and the others is that it introduces funding for a border wall.

The funds raised would be used for a number of goals, chief among them ‘building a border wall between Mexico and [Arizona] or fund border security.’ The image above shows the border wall in the town of Nogales, Arizona

The money would then be collected into a new account called the ‘John McCain Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Fund.’

In March, a proposal targeting online pornography and human trafficking billed as the ‘Elizabeth Smart Law’ grabbed headlines for its unusual approach: require a filter that can be lifted with a $20 fee.

But Smart, who was kidnapped from her Utah home as a teenager in 2002, sent a cease-and-desist letter to demand her name be removed from it.

And the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography advocacy group, demanded last year that the man behind the legislation, Chris Sevier, stop claiming it supported his work.

Despite those issues, constitutional concerns raised by groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, and a history of outlandish lawsuits from Sevier including trying to marry his computer as a statement against same-sex marriage, similar bills pushed by Sevier keep popping up in state legislatures.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which opposes the idea, has tracked around two dozen similar bills in 18 state legislatures this year, none of which have passed.

A federal judge in Utah on March 16 threw out a lawsuit from Sevier that targeted gay marriage by arguing that he should be able to marry his laptop. Similar lawsuits in Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina and Kentucky have been dismissed.