The plan to fight coronavirus with trillion-dollar platinum coins

[corbe]

The plan to fight coronavirus with trillion-dollar platinum coins

Dion Rabouin


Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios

The growing throng of critics who have assailed the Senate's $2.2 trillion spending bill as avarice, insufficient and disappointing have an alternative.

Enter Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and the Automatic BOOST to Communities Act, a bill so massive, audacious and unparalleled in scope that one of its primary authors asserts "There is no number that would be meaningful to estimate" its cost.

What it is: Tlaib proposes sending to every single person in the U.S. a debit card loaded with $2,000, then reloading that card every month with $1,000 "until one year after the end of the Coronavirus crisis.

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[catfish1957]

Coming to a Federal Reserve near you.....




And i knew my my ancestors stash would be worth something if I waited long enough.   

[Smokin Joe]

Coming to a Federal Reserve near you.....




And i knew my my ancestors stash would be worth something if I waited long enough.   

Sorry, Charlie, chances are the Zim bill is more valuable. http://www.antiquemoney.com/how-to-identify-counterfeit-currency/fake-alert-confederate-states-of-america-20-bill-september-2-1861/ A lot depends on the serial number, but that issue is a commonly copied note.