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Tlaib proposes minting two $1 trillion platinum coins to finance monthly coronavirus debit cards
Wash Exam ^ | 3/21/20 | JOSEPH LAWLER

Posted on 03/21/2020 6:31:56 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

If I put that trillion dollar coin in a coke machine, I bet I don’t get all my change?


21 posted on 03/21/2020 6:52:26 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Why involve the Federal Reserve and create more debt?

Congress can “coin money and regulate the value thereof”. Having coined two trillion dollars and depositing same in the Treasury, the Treasury can issue US Notes and deposit them into special accounts created for this purpose by all chartered banks using people’s social security numbers.

There is NO REASON to continue the system of creating money by increasing the people’s indebtedness to the Federal Reserve.

Tlaib for Presidnet!


22 posted on 03/21/2020 6:53:45 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Why not mint 328,000,000 $1-trillion coins and give one to everybody?


23 posted on 03/21/2020 6:54:13 PM PDT by wny
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Why not just give everybody Bitcoins.
24 posted on 03/21/2020 6:54:22 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: Persevero
We can’t just print money

We haven't stopped at $22 trillion, who says we can't?

25 posted on 03/21/2020 6:55:32 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: coloradan

I like the loaves-and-fishes Bloomberg plan promoted by CNBC. Take 350 million and give everybody in the country one million!


26 posted on 03/21/2020 6:57:10 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Paladin2
Except no one could afford one. Besides it would have to be a really big coin. With the Federal Reserve we can just add it to the balance sheet which we already cannot pay off.

A 10 oz. platinum bar costs around 6,500 dollars, so it would take roughly 153,846,154 10 oz. platinum bars, or 96,153,846 pounds, to make a 1 trillion dollar coin. 8>)

Not sure anyone could deliver it to anyone, even if someone does have that kind of wealth to afford one. 8>)

27 posted on 03/21/2020 6:58:22 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Persevero

It’s not printing!

It’s minting.


28 posted on 03/21/2020 6:58:30 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Robert DeLong

A quarter is not worth $0.25....


29 posted on 03/21/2020 6:59:29 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
minting two $1 trillion platinum coins

It really doesn't matter how you print money. It's inflationary, and robs from those who create to give to those who first get the new money.

30 posted on 03/21/2020 6:59:38 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: wny

Where would you get change?


31 posted on 03/21/2020 6:59:45 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Can anyone say Hyper-inflation?


32 posted on 03/21/2020 7:00:38 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: Larry Lucido
"It’s not printing!

It’s minting."

So true.

That's a keeper going forward.

33 posted on 03/21/2020 7:01:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Do I have to get a debit card? Can I get $1200 a month in Applebees gift cards?


34 posted on 03/21/2020 7:01:19 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: Larry Lucido

bits....


35 posted on 03/21/2020 7:01:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

At the current platinum price of $619.35/ounce (=$22.11/gram) we would need a coin with a radius of 328 feet and a thickness of 4.8 feet, approximately. And of course, we need two of them.


36 posted on 03/21/2020 7:02:21 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Just answer that new email where Warren Buffet promises to give you 1 million bucks in coronavirus help because your email has been randomly selected from a list of victims.


37 posted on 03/21/2020 7:03:49 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Paladin2

True, but we are willing to accept the discrepancy, because it is accepted as having a quarter value in the marketplace. Someone with a trillion dollars is not going to be so forgiving, and neither would the marketplace. 8>)


38 posted on 03/21/2020 7:03:52 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

We could just say we did it and save ourselves the trouble.


39 posted on 03/21/2020 7:04:46 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Make It $3 TRILLION. I Want Some!


40 posted on 03/21/2020 7:05:14 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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