[Revel]

And X amount of Food would suddenly cost 2 trillion more to buy. Idiots.

[Lucky9teen]

[PaleoBob]

I’ve got an old pair of penny loafers in my closet. Why not just deposit them in the bank, say each is worth a trillion, and .... Ya know, whatever.

[Lazamataz]

Crazy.

But nothing surprises me anymore.

[Jonty30]

The only reason why Liberals don’t care about the debt is that they have every intent of having the US walk away from paying. They are just trying every trick in the book to increase the debt in the meantime.

[teeman8r]

wampum gagnon style.

we are doomed.

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[freedomfiter2]

That’s a great idea. We’ll just retool the soda machines to accept them and add a bunch of zeroes to our money and pay all our creditors back with an even trillion dollar coin. We could have the national debt payed off by the Fourth of July!

[listenhillary]

How is it any different than what we are doing now?

Doesn’t the Federal reserve buy the bonds that the treasury is selling with money created out of thin air?

[CitizenM]

Beyond belief! The ONLY fix to get our economy back into recovery is a reduction of “freebies” and hand-outs of ridiculous grants for unnecessary studies, and to cut the wages and staffs of overly populated government offices and eliminate duplicate and worthless programs.

[Sooth2222]

How about a giant rubber coin? It seems weirdly appropriate -- and Douglas Adams seems weirdly prophetic.

[ElkGroveDan]

While we are at it we can change the name of our country to Argentina.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Why don’t we give each person a billion dollars, so we could all be billionaires? What’s economically wrong with that? /s

[Redmen4ever]

Accepting for the moment that Congress authorized the issue of platinum coins at whatever value the Treasury puts on them, the act would be unconstitutional as it would abrogate the Congress’ power to coin money and regulate the value thereof. I suspect that there is legislative history in which the Congress provided some parameters to what the Treasury could do with platinum coins.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Just create “The Infinity Coin”, and then, live happily ever after.

[henbane]

The platinum coins are just part of a gigantic fiscal shell game--a distraction for the eye of the gullible public.

The instant the 2 Trillion is deposited in the Treasury, the mammoth printing presses will roar into life and pour out hundreds of tons of paper 24/7.

Children playing with blocks of currency in Weimar Germany (1920's)

[OldArmy52]

Why a Platinum $1,000,0000,000,000 coin?

Platinum has instrinsic value.

Make it $1,000,000,000,000+ wooden nickels.

Or use Zimbabwee “bucks”. There must still be a lot of high denomination Zimbabwee bucks around.

Worked real swell for them.
Should work just as well for us.

[Mr. K]

Wasn’t this an episode of “The Simpsons”?