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Federal Reserve to Launch Its Own E-currency: Fedcoin
EconomicPolicyJournal.com ^ | September 23, 2017 | Robert Wenzel

Posted on 09/23/2017 11:10:02 AM PDT by PPSman

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To: PPSman

No drug money, no money for hostile regimes, no money laundering, oh no!


21 posted on 09/23/2017 11:37:11 AM PDT by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: I want the USA back

“In 10.005 years everyone finds out that the government has been monitoring all transactions, and will use the information to determine what your salary and taxes will be. They will just take the taxes out of your money. No need to file a tax return. Convenient, eh?”

Converges with my huge complaint regarding “national sales tax” (whatever form, FairTax included): once the gov’t legitimizes monitoring of every transaction, they will tax & legislate accordingly.

Ex.:
You go to the grocery store and buy a cold soda on a hot day.
You’re instantly taxed on local, state, & federal level on the purchase. (That’s kinda the point. But then...)
The “nutritional information” being cross referenced with the purchase, you’re taxed extra for purchasing a “health risk” product.
The “nutritional information” being cross referenced with your medical records, you’re found “at risk” of diabetes and your health premium is increased.
Your name being correlated with parking records, you’re found to have not paid a parking ticket and instantly fined accordingly, paid via the card you just purchased with.
Your parking violations being excessive, your driver’s license is revoked and police dispatched to arrest you when you attempt to drive home.

You don’t want to give the gov’t reason to monitor purchases.


22 posted on 09/23/2017 11:39:36 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

5. By only accepting payment of taxes/fees/etc via Fedcoin or cash (and the latter only to retrieve cash for removal from circulation).


23 posted on 09/23/2017 11:42:08 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: PPSman

The whole point of blockchain currencies is they can’t be manipulated or confiscated by a government.

This currency would be designed to make sure the government could manipulate/confiscate it.

No sale.


24 posted on 09/23/2017 11:45:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Reno89519

And best of all, the feral government can zero your account at any time for any reason!


25 posted on 09/23/2017 11:47:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: mewzilla

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The denomination will be in multiples of 666.


26 posted on 09/23/2017 11:48:30 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: PPSman

Got FedCoin?


27 posted on 09/23/2017 11:59:49 AM PDT by Gasshog (When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Would make asset forfeiture easier.


28 posted on 09/23/2017 12:05:28 PM PDT by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Reno89519

Do we have to use bitcoin to buy it?


29 posted on 09/23/2017 12:43:12 PM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: Reno89519
Would make asset forfeiture easier.

According to Harvey Silverglate (Three Felonies a Day), there are so many laws in the 153,000 pages of the United States Code of Federal Regulations and the 75,000 pages of the United States Tax Code that we all arguably commit three felonies a day.

Maybe the reason they are recording everything we do online is so that someday they can asset forfeiture the entire country based on the catalog of federal crimes we have allegedly committed.

30 posted on 09/23/2017 12:50:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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Thank you for referencing that article PPSman. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Federal Reserve to Launch Its Own E-currency: Fedcoin"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Noting that Pres. Trump favors the gold standard, please consider the following.

Trump Favors Returning To The Gold Standard

Regardless what the Federal Reserve wants, unconstitutional Fedcoin in this example, not only does Pres. Trump favor returning to the gold standard, but consider the following concerning the constitutionally undefined Federal Reserve.

Let's start by considering that Thomas Jefferson had noted that the state delegates to the Constitutional Convention had decided not to give the feds the specific power to regulate banking. So regardless that the Federal Reserve is argued to be a private entity, it remains that Pres. Wilson wrongly ignored state sovereignty by signing the Federal Reserve Act into law imo.

“A proposition was made to them to authorize Congress to open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to incorporate. But the whole was rejected, and one of the reasons for rejection urged in debate was, that then they would have a power to erect a bank, which would render the great cities, where there were prejudices and jealousies on the subject, adverse to the reception of the Constitution [emphasis added].” —Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.

Next, when socialist FDR confiscated gold with unconstitutional (imo) Executive Order 6102, he wrongly ignored that the Founding States had decided that the states would use only gold and silver coin as legal tender.

"Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts [emphasis added]; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."

Finally, consider that the Founding States make the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in the non-elected “private” entities running the constitutionally undefined Federal Reserve.

So it can be argued that the Reserve is just another way for career lawmakers to protect their voting records where Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 power to regulate the value of coin money is concerned imo.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof [emphasis added], and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"

Corrections, insights welcome.

Changing the emphasis of this thread to gold standard-supporting Pres. Trump, consider that although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the state sovereignty-ignoring Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably for practice. That being said ...

Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!

Remember in November 2018 !

Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to us patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.

In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.

Also, unlike career members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.

Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!

31 posted on 09/23/2017 1:01:36 PM PDT by Amendment10
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Oh goodie. This will surely turn out well.

Now they don’t even have to use paper and ink to create trillions in worthless fiat. Just a few electrons.

Well, at least it will save on bearing replacement on the presses that have been running overtime for the last 20 (+) years


32 posted on 09/23/2017 1:28:55 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Google Doug Casey

I did. I saw nothing wrong.

33 posted on 09/23/2017 1:42:40 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: ctdonath2

Who gets to drink the cold soda? Just kidding, I think you’re right on the money.


34 posted on 09/23/2017 1:43:13 PM PDT by kdot
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http://www.nasdaq.com/article/fedcoin-could-replace-the-dollar-as-we-know-it-cm774260

Reputable discussion on concept


35 posted on 09/23/2017 1:50:51 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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In 10.006 years your average publik scrule graduate will thank the fed.gov for the convenience of not having to file tax returns, and for (allegedly) reducing street crime by eliminating cash.


36 posted on 09/23/2017 3:35:09 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Reno89519

Which will be triggered the first time you send the wrong email or letter to a Congressman, the President or some fed sgrncy. State equivalenys to come no later than 3 months later.


37 posted on 09/23/2017 3:41:12 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: PPSman

Government crypto-currency is an oxymoron. The whole point of cryptocurrency is privacy from the government.


38 posted on 09/23/2017 4:43:06 PM PDT by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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I had to check to see if this was dated April 1 or not. Lol.


39 posted on 09/23/2017 4:57:28 PM PDT by ChuckR163
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In 10.1 years, "You've been a bad boy. All your money are belong to us. Good Ruck!"

40 posted on 09/23/2017 5:57:43 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: Antifa, SPLC, CNN, CAIR, ESPN, NBA, NFL, NPR, BLM, Hollywood, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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