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Mnuchin won’t say if he wants Tubman on $20 bill
San Jose Mercury-News ^ | August 31, 2017 | By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 08/31/2017 2:48:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is raising speculation that Harriet Tubman’s future on the $20 bill could be in jeopardy.

In a CNBC interview, Mnuchin on Thursday avoided a direct answer when asked whether he supported the decision made by the Obama administration to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Tubman, the 19th century African-American abolitionist who was a leader in the Underground Railroad.

“People have been on the bills for a long period of time,” he said. “This is something we’ll consider. Right now, we have a lot more important issues to focus on.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cash; currency; mnuchin; tubman
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To: Fai Mao

That’s the right thing to do. I’d put the eagle back on the quarter though. you can move the bear and turkey around as you see fit. :-)


21 posted on 08/31/2017 3:09:47 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: SC_Republican

You’re right, and others have pointed this out as well.

I’d leave them do to their standing in our nation’s history, and the fact they’ve been on our bills for a long time.

There’s no need to replace them.

As for Reagan, his time will come and I think he should be on one of our bills.


22 posted on 08/31/2017 3:09:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mnuchi, i DON’T GIVE 2¢, WHAT YOU WANT OR THINKLEAVE THE MONEY ALONE!!!!


23 posted on 08/31/2017 3:10:05 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Fai Mao

Or bring back the ‘Indian Head’ Penny. And watch the left’s heads explode.


24 posted on 08/31/2017 3:10:21 PM PDT by Reagan80 ("In this current crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem")
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To: Fai Mao

And we should make them out of silver copper and gold.


25 posted on 08/31/2017 3:11:36 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: jjotto

Good point, $10 Hamilton and $100 Franklin were not presidents. I muffed that one.

I’d leave them do to their standing in our nation’s history, and the fact they’ve been on our bills for a long time.

There’s no need to replace them.

As others have pointed out, they were not political activists.

The last thing I want on one of our bills is a person who was an abortion activist. (As I understand it, Tubman was.)


26 posted on 08/31/2017 3:11:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: lodi90

“Trump should put Reagan on the $10.”

If he did that, and I fully support it, I would almost never use a $20 again.


27 posted on 08/31/2017 3:13:43 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If he does he would be making a huge mistake.


28 posted on 08/31/2017 3:14:23 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: DoughtyOne

I have been lurking 4chan for months. If the Treasury Dept goes through with this they will spend $40 to put every one of these bills in circulation and keep it there. They have a lot of “creative” uses for this bill that will limit it’s circulation pretty seriously.


29 posted on 08/31/2017 3:14:58 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: CJ Wolf

Yeah, probably since it used to be on the quarter.

I was searching around for appropriate animals. I like the bear. The turkey, well.....maybe a long horn cow or a wild horse instead.


30 posted on 08/31/2017 3:15:07 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is raising speculation that Harriet Tubman’s future on the $20 bill could be in jeopardy.

Hopefully.


31 posted on 08/31/2017 3:16:41 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: wastoute

Put a person like Tubman on every bill. Half our populace would avoid cash like the plague.


32 posted on 08/31/2017 3:18:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: originalbuckeye

He was an abolitionist.

I wouldn’t have a problem with putting two portraits on a bill. In fact I think it would be a great idea to have both Franklin and Tubman on a bill.
Or Lincoln and Tubman.
Liberal heads would explode... since they are trying to resegregate everyone into warring factions and erase the history of the Republican party by assuming its historic mantle as their ownwhilst smearing us with their evils.


33 posted on 08/31/2017 3:22:02 PM PDT by piasa
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To: originalbuckeye

He was an abolitionist.

I wouldn’t have a problem with putting two portraits on a bill. In fact I think it would be a great idea to have both Franklin and Tubman on a bill.
Or Lincoln and Tubman.
Liberal heads would explode... since they are trying to resegregate everyone into warring factions and erase the history of the Republican party by assuming its historic mantle as their ownwhilst smearing us with their evils.

[In fact, I’d like to be the artist to do it.]


34 posted on 08/31/2017 3:24:46 PM PDT by piasa
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To: DoughtyOne

You okay with Obama on the $3 bill?


35 posted on 08/31/2017 3:41:20 PM PDT by datricker (Why are Trump lawyers on TV and not Hillary's - Lock her up! Lock her up!)
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To: piasa

How about putting sections on the Constitution on the backs of the money. Kids could fold it to make it say all sorts of crazy things just like federal judge, but they might learn what it says


36 posted on 08/31/2017 3:44:36 PM PDT by datricker (Why are Trump lawyers on TV and not Hillary's - Lock her up! Lock her up!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Susan B Anthony dollar again.
No one will want them.


37 posted on 08/31/2017 4:08:21 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: LukeL

Our old currency is beautiful and defined liberty and heritage. What’s the point now anyway? Our society will be cashless for the most part in twenty years. Coins are a nuisance and worthless. I rarely touch money anymore.


38 posted on 08/31/2017 4:24:50 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tubman already is on the $20 bill.

William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman (1895 –1971), 19th President of Liberia, is on the Liberian $20 bill.

39 posted on 08/31/2017 4:30:55 PM PDT by x
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Make everyone happy. Put Tubman on a three dollar bill.

rwood


40 posted on 08/31/2017 4:48:09 PM PDT by Redwood71
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