Charlie Ventura
Active Member
Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution states: "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; ...."
The Constitution is the law of the land, therefore a state may pay its own debts in Federal Reserve Notes, but is forbidden to REQUIRE citizens to pay debts to the state in Federal Reserve Notes.
The way out is, if every citizen were to read Article I, Section 10, then explore it from a historical standpoint, learn why the Founders put that section into the Constitution, then take bold action, we would soon be out of our state and national debt problem.
We can refuse to pay government (state) debts like income taxes, sales taxes, DMV fees, etc., in FERNs and insist that these government departments start abiding by the Law of the Land. Here's the facts; we have not been issued gold and silver coin, the public mints have been closed, so we cannot have gold and silver coins minted in said amounts to facilitate paying sales taxes, income taxes and other government fees.
So, if we really had the testiculars ( is that a word?), the next time we do our shopping at WalMart or CostCo, we would tell the cashier, after the bill is totaled up, that we will only pay for the cost of the goods, but we will not pay the sales tax, because we don't have any Constitutionally authorized money to pay the tax. Then we would just walk out of the store with our goods, paid for, sans the tax.
Comments?
The Constitution is the law of the land, therefore a state may pay its own debts in Federal Reserve Notes, but is forbidden to REQUIRE citizens to pay debts to the state in Federal Reserve Notes.
The way out is, if every citizen were to read Article I, Section 10, then explore it from a historical standpoint, learn why the Founders put that section into the Constitution, then take bold action, we would soon be out of our state and national debt problem.
We can refuse to pay government (state) debts like income taxes, sales taxes, DMV fees, etc., in FERNs and insist that these government departments start abiding by the Law of the Land. Here's the facts; we have not been issued gold and silver coin, the public mints have been closed, so we cannot have gold and silver coins minted in said amounts to facilitate paying sales taxes, income taxes and other government fees.
So, if we really had the testiculars ( is that a word?), the next time we do our shopping at WalMart or CostCo, we would tell the cashier, after the bill is totaled up, that we will only pay for the cost of the goods, but we will not pay the sales tax, because we don't have any Constitutionally authorized money to pay the tax. Then we would just walk out of the store with our goods, paid for, sans the tax.
Comments?
