What is the best usable Competing Curency?

[ghemminger]

Ok, I'm sick of this Dollar talk and I am going on a Dollar Protest. What can I buy every pay period to use instead of US dollars?

Silver Coins?

Poker Chips?

Script?

Euros?

Glow Sticks?

 

[purepaloma]

Silver Bullion

If you need to park some savings, buy 90 Day Canadian or Swiss "Federal" T-Bills through your broker.

 

[JosephTheLibertarian]

can I still walk up to a river with a pan and get lucky?

 

[terlinguatx]

...

 

[TVMH]

Best currency? The question is best answered by the market.

If you had a choice to accept gold or silver coins instead of pretty green, pink, and blue paper, which would you accept?

 

[kylejack]

Silver bullion for maintaining value, but these days it doesn't function well as currency due to legal crap. The Swiss are pretty responsible with their money supply.

 

[Johnnybags]

US Nickels are not fiat

the metal content is 35 percent or so over face + costs to the mint. Bush succeeded in inflating nickels to a premium, lol. A little heavy to carry.

 

[user]

Right now there is no real alternative because of taxes.

 

[Indy Vidual]

Ok, I'm sick of this Dollar talk and I am going on a Dollar Protest. What can I buy every pay period to use instead of US dollars?

Silver Coins?

Poker Chips?

Script?

Euros?

Glow Sticks?

If you don't drink buy large bottles of rum.

 

[ghemminger]

Yey bought my first SILVER. $50 bucks worth...I know I didn't get a good deal but 1st time for everything.

Bought:
1 uncirculated Walking Liberty
5 unc Dimes
3 Quarters
4 Circuated Walking Liberties

 

[AlexMerced]

the metal content is 35 percent or so over face + costs to the mint. Bush succeeded in inflating nickels to a premium, lol. A little heavy to carry.

So I should change allmy saving to nickels and sell the metal?

 

[OptionsTrader]

can I still walk up to a river with a pan and get lucky?

Ask Dennis Hof

 

[reaver]

Food Stamps?

 

[ghemminger]

Food Stamps?

I wonder if it is legal to buy script or coupons from people at 50%?

 

[DrNoZone]

Check out the Phoenix Dollar.

 

[Brent H]

We already have TWO legal currencies in the U.S.

THE US GOVERNMENT MINTS BOTH GOLD AND SILVER MONEY

Pursuant to 31 United States Code since 1986 the United States mint has minted gold coins in (crazy) denominations of $50 (one troy ounce), $25 (one-half troy ounce), $10 [sic] (one quarter troy ounce), and $5 (one-tenth troy ounce). The US mint also makes a .999 troy ounce (not one full troy ounce) pure silver coin called the Silver Liberty, but popularly known as the "Silver American Eagle."

These coins are all legal tender per 31 USC 5103, "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts."

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_02/sanders042002.html

IRS Suffers Defeat: Kahre tax trial Wages Paid in Gold & Silver Coin

Around noon on Monday, September 17th, a Las Vegas federal jury returned its verdict refusing to convict nine defendants of any of the 161 federal tax crimes they had been charged with. The charges included income tax evasion, willful failure to file and conspiracy to evade taxes.

The four-month trial centered around the family businesses of Robert Kahre who paid numerous workers for their labor with circulating gold and silver U.S. coins, and did not report the wages. The payments took place over several years, allegedly totaling at least $114 million dollars.

On September 20, 2007, three days after the federal trial's dramatic conclusion, the Las Vegas Review Journal, reportedly under a degree of public pressure, ran its first (and last) story about the outcome of the trial. To this day, with exception of the single article by the Review Journal, no major media entity has published a news story regarding the outcome of this important federal criminal tax case.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/366287.shtml

 

[Voice]

You can negotiate with your employer to work for a certan amount of bullion. If you can get a few co-workers to do it too, you won't be adding to her cost. Otherwise you'll probably have to offer to take a pay cut at the same time to compensate. There is also the problem of fluxuation and taxes.

 

[jonahtrainer]

You can negotiate with your employer to work for a certan amount of bullion. If you can get a few co-workers to do it too, you won't be adding to her cost. Otherwise you'll probably have to offer to take a pay cut at the same time to compensate. There is also the problem of fluxuation and taxes.

If you could get the people you spend money at to accept GoldMoney.com I would highly recommend it. The dollar has a pretty good government enforced monopoly but it is rapidly losing it.

 

[Mortikhi]

trade your dollars for pennies.
Melt the pennies down.
Sell the copper.

The gov says its illegal. Yeh? Well F them.

 

[ghemminger]

trade your dollars for pennies.
Melt the pennies down.
Sell the copper.

The gov says its illegal. Yeh? Well F them.

yeah I heard about this...I think there is a very intimate trading community that engages in this when the prices align....not to sure the practicality..though

Are all pennies actually copper?