There is a lot of valuable ground covered in the following audio/video interviews…

First, with Jeff Deist – President of the Mises Institute.

 

Then, with Jay Taylor…

 

The enthusiasm with which our parliaments and their departments produce regulations implies a belief that when a sufficient number have been enacted we will have a social and economic perfection.

I am reminded of the saying ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions.’

Yet they cannot cease their destructive impulses, for were they to do so, then it would be the acknowledgement that they are superfluous to requirements.  To put it more bluntly – a complete waste of time, space, energy and, more importantly, money.

Keith Weiner has produced another excellent piece this week on just this subject…

“We have spilled barrels of electronic ink, making the point that central banks are wreaking havoc. They hurt the poor, the middle class, and the rich. They hurt the wage earners, the business owners, the investors (aka the “rentiers”), and the pensioners. They have variously inflicted rising interest rates, too-high rates, falling rates, and too-low rates. They have imposed perverse incentives to destroy capital and consume wealth.”

Read it all.

A bill filed in advance of the next legislative session would make gold and silver legal tender again in the state of South Carolina.

State Representative Stewart O. Jones submitted legislation that would restore gold and silver to their status as legal tender in his state.

Read it all

Dr. Keith Weiner went to Cheyenne Wyoming last week, to support these bills. He met with the state Treasurer and some legislators.

The linked article is a little over the top, but progress is progress.

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Three bills presented by Wyoming legislators last week requiring the state’s treasurer to invest in gold and silver are the logical follow-up to the state’s decision last summer to declare gold and silver as legal tender, just like the Constitution demands in Article I, Section 10: “No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.”

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Another small step in the right direction…

From

JP Cortez

March 8, 2018

Sound Money Bill Heads to Governor Matt Mead’s Desk

Following a 44-14 vote in the Wyoming House last week, the Wyoming State Senate today overwhelmingly approved a bill which helps restore constitutional, sound money in Wyoming.

Wyoming Senators voted 25-5 to pass the Wyoming Legal Tender Act (House Bill 103), sending the measure introduced by Representative Roy Edwards (R-Gillette) to Governor Matt Mead’s desk. Sound money activists are already contacting Gov. Mead urging that he sign the bill.

Backed by the  Sound Money Defense League, Campaign for Liberty, and  Money Metals Exchange, HB 103 is a bill that removes all state taxation from  gold and silver bullion and reaffirms their legal tender status in Wyoming, in keeping with Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution.

Testifying before the Senate Minerals, Business, and Economic Development Committee, Sound Money Defense League Policy Director Jp Cortez made the case to Wyoming legislators that assessing taxes on purchases of gold and silver is unjust and undermines their constitutional status as money.

Representative Edwards said in support of HB 103, “Imagine going to the grocery store and asking the clerk for change for a $20 bill and being charged 80-cents in tax. That’s what we’re doing in Wyoming by charging sales taxes on precious metals and we’re taking steps to change that.”

Wyoming does not have an income tax. However, it does have a sales tax and it assesses this tax against precious metals bullion.  If Gov. Mead signs HB 103, Wyoming would join all its neighboring states (South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska) and more than 30 other states that do not assess a sales tax against precious metals.

Other states have eliminated income taxation on gold and silver (Arizona and Utah) or have established precious metals depositories to help citizens save and transact in gold and silver bullion (Texas).

Cortez’s testimony highlighted the harmful effects of inflation that flow from the Federal Reserve System and how erecting barriers to precious metal ownership harms those most negatively impacted by currency debasement – wage earners, savers, those on a fixed income – and local business owners who lose business to out-of-state dealers that don’t subject buyers with unfair taxation.

“Governor Mead should sign the Wyoming Legal Tender Act into law without delay and help Wyoming businesses as well as all citizens harmed by inflation,” said Cortez.

For more information on state laws dealing with gold and silver,  click here.

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The  Sound Money Defense League is an Idaho-based public policy group working nationally to bring back gold and silver as America’s constitutional money.  For comment or more information, call 1-208-577-2225 or email jp.cortez@soundmoneydefense.org.

Jp Cortez, Policy Director

Sound Money Defense League

P.O. Box 2599

Eagle, ID 83616

www.SoundMoneyDefense.org

1. c) 678-332-8884