S. Carolina legislator introduces bill to ban dollars and establish bimetallism

[Zanza]

Oh, yes. The hope was to make Germany look too poor to pay reparations.

And to inflate away internal debt.

[Razgovory]

Maybe instead S. Carolina still could use some Confederate money, if they have any still left around somewhere? 

Anyhow, is this so odd? It sounds odd, but if states do have the legal ability to mint money, and given the rising value of gold, silver and other metals, and worries about the dollar losing value, maybe it's not such a bad idea? With the rising investments into gold I guess I'm mot surprised someone is thinking about this kind of thing, though I can't say I'd endorse it.

Yes, it's pretty odd.  It does give a window into these idiots are buying gold.  They think the US is going to collapse.

[KRonn]

Maybe instead S. Carolina still could use some Confederate money, if they have any still left around somewhere? 

Anyhow, is this so odd? It sounds odd, but if states do have the legal ability to mint money, and given the rising value of gold, silver and other metals, and worries about the dollar losing value, maybe it's not such a bad idea? With the rising investments into gold I guess I'm mot surprised someone is thinking about this kind of thing, though I can't say I'd endorse it.

Yes, it's pretty odd.  It does give a window into these idiots are buying gold.  They think the US is going to collapse.

It would seem to be a very unstable currency, given how gold/metals prices do increase or decrease quite a bit, and quickly, depending on economic issues. The dollar's value fluctuates but not nearly as much as gold values, seems to me. So unless I'm missing something, this idea seems to have as many problems as the solutions it's trying to create anyway.

[Syt]

"The Germans felt their system wouldn't collapse, but it took a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread in the 1930s," he said.

I think he meant the 1923 hyperinflation. The early 1930s, in the wake of the 1929 crisis were marked by deflation.

[Martinus]

Isn't South Carolina the state with the governor who took off to South America in search of his lover and the vice-governor who thought that one should not give kids at schools free meals because this would encourage them to breed like stray dogs?

Or am I thinking of some other nutty state?

[katmai]

Isn't South Carolina the state with the governor who took off to South America in search of his lover and the vice-governor who thought that one should not give kids at schools free meals because this would encourage them to breed like stray dogs?

Or am I thinking of some other nutty state?

[Syt]

It's also the home of steamy man-horse love.

[Razgovory]

Isn't South Carolina the state with the governor who took off to South America in search of his lover and the vice-governor who thought that one should not give kids at schools free meals because this would encourage them to breed like stray dogs?

Or am I thinking of some other nutty state?

I thought you would agree with these ideas.

[Neil]

Isn't South Carolina the state with the governor who took off to South America in search of his lover and the vice-governor who thought that one should not give kids at schools free meals because this would encourage them to breed like stray dogs?

Or am I thinking of some other nutty state?

I thought you would agree with these ideas.

Indeed.  Martinus the bigot would support both those ideas if they weren't coming from a heterosexual.

[dps]

Oh, and if Congress says the states can't value their own money, they can't.  Supremacy clause: if it's not listed in the constitution, federal rules have top priority.

Pretty sure that the courts said otherwise, which is why Congress just put a prohibitively expensive tax on state currencies instead of just outright banning them.  Of course, the courts today might rule quite differently.

[The Brain]

It's also the home of steamy man-horse love.

[garbon]

Whereas Washington is the state where such love ends in death.

[Eddie Teach]

It's also the home of steamy man-horse love.

Your efforts to breed a centaur might be better served with gene splicing.

[Syt]

Whereas Washington is the state where such love ends in death.