Time to Legalize Counterfeiting
By Harold Witkov
Many Americans today believe certain illegal vices in our society should be decriminalized, taxed, and regulated. The most popular of these vices include marijuana smoking, prostitution, and all forms of gambling. The proponents for decriminalization believe that the new tax revenues produced would help support schools, healthcare, and the impoverished, ease the pain of taxpayers, and reduce the deficit. They also believe that transgressions such as these will take place no matter, but, if properly regulated, would be safer for society in general. It would be a win, win situation.
Unfortunately, when it comes to lowering taxes and helping the downtrodden, the best-laid government plans seem to fall short of expectations. However, there is one vice, one small illegal indiscretion, that, if decriminalized would solve all our problems. The United States needs to legalize the victimless crime known as counterfeiting.
Once legalized, counterfeiting would be for everyone. This could be accomplished by making Federal Reserve Note paper (complete with silk threads, watermarks, etc.) available to the public. With the correct paper, most computers with the right software would have no trouble replicating U.S. currency. If a household did not have a computer, special over- the-counter counterfeit kits could be made available, with instructions in both English and Spanish.
Once in place, universal counterfeiting would prove to be the ultimate stimulus package for the economy. Employees would always have enough money and never have to go on strike. Citizens would have no trouble paying their mortgages and never face foreclosure. Everyone would gladly pay his or her taxes and there would be no need to have an IRS.
Free market consumerism would return with a flourish. People would purchase whatever they wanted and stores would only have to worry about having enough merchandise on hand. Stores could charge the consumer whatever they wanted and the consumer could still afford. Every shopping day would be like the day after Thanksgiving and the day before Christmas.
Once legalized, counterfeiting would still have to be regulated. Parity and fairness would dictate that families earning over $250,000 would only be allowed to print $1, $2, $5 and $10 denominations. Families with combined incomes of less than $250,000 could print $20 and $50 bills. The unemployed could print $100 bills, and ACORN workers and UAW members would be entitled to counterfeit a new denomination, something even larger than the $100 bill (with President Obama on the front).
Universal counterfeiting could be the entitlement program that ends all other entitlement programs and sets us free. It is time to stand up and tell our legislators we want universal counterfeiting. If they protest, "You cannot just print money," then promptly respond in kind, "Why not? It works for you."
Comments (13)
Another thing that would help, is legalize theft.
You are allowed to steal from people who have more than you, but only say 20-30% in a year(depending on how much stuff they have, of course).
Nothing really changes. We just cut out the government middle-man.
AWESOME!
This works for me.
Can we also legalize counterfeit prescription pads? I need my fix, but it's such a pain inventing a new lie for the doctors every month. Also, with all the running around from one doctor to another and from one pharmacy to another, it's hard to keep them all straight.
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. -James Madison
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is, perhaps, the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in fact inflate, mint and un-mint the modern ledger-entry currency." Major L L B Angus.
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. -Abraham Lincoln
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. -Andrew Jackson
Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207) now has 186 co-sponsors, and the numbers keep growing!
This is history in the making, and victory is within reach. Imagine what will happen if HR 1207, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act, comes up for vote in Congress! With more than 40% of the House of Representatives already co-sponsoring this bill, it has real potential to pass — BUT only if we educate and rally the people to support it and get our Congresspeople to put it to vote and pass it.
http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1207/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=638447372044116845
That is a good idea ,I heard Rush propose that very idea and agreed with him too!!!
Counterfeiting is already been legalized, they let federal reserve counterfeit everyday.........Where have you been for the last 90 years or so?????
WOW are you an idiot!
It's horrifying all the stupid sheeple who don't see this is tongue in cheek. But then most of them probably voted for the marxist mutt.
It will take that tiny minority hanging many expensive suits along Pennsylvania Ave. to fix this mess, if it can be fixed.
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Think globally, fight locally. Aim small, miss small. One shot, one dead "Liberal"(communist/fascist).
Are you kidding me? I am 18 years old and seem to understand the problem this would cause more then you. If everyone could make money, nobody would need jobs, everyone would be lazy, and the price of everything would go way up because everyone would have a bunch of money. This would definitely be abused, and this is definitely the dumbest thing I have read so far today.
waterski2fris: This is called satire.
This raises an interesting point. Why is money kept in short supply? The rationale is to control inflation, but more likely it is to support the money lending business. Money is U.S. property and thus belongs to all the people. Even if they can't print it, they should have more say over how it is distributed in this supposed democracy.
After the Great Depression, most of the states passed usury laws limiting interest rates to around 6%, I think, to correct previous abuses. The banking industry quietly had these repealed in the 60s and 70s, giving us the often double-digit rates of today - legal loan sharking.
So, if not free money, at least the U. S. should reimpose interest rate caps - and be the lender of last resort - for a just and progressive society.
Yep. That and get rid of the 30-year mortgage.
I'm gonna just sit here and hold my breath until it happens.