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   ConserveGov said, 4 months ago

   You ought as well make it a 24 trillion dollar coin to at least cover the next 4 years.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago

   The coin is not meant to pay back debt, just to show that the GOP is willing to burn down the country in order to “safe” it from debt they themselves generated. Hypocrites!
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   You know they could make more of them, say 14 or so.
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   Michael wme said, 4 months ago

   @Debbie Jordan

   Congress has passed laws about what denominations of paper currency can be issued (and paper money counts towards the debt ceiling). Congress has passed laws about what gold coins can be issued, and how much gold has to be in them. Congress has passed laws about what silver coins can be issued, and how much silver has to be in them. Congress has passed laws about what copper coins can be issued, and how much copper has to be in them. Penultimately, Congress has passed laws about what coins can be issued using the new alloy that tricks vending machines into thinking the coins are silver, and how much of that alloy has to be in them.

   
   But the law allows platinum ‘commemorative’ coins in any denomination the Secretary of the Treasury deems appropriate and does not specify how much platinum they have to contain, and, if such a coin is minted and deposited with the Treasury, it legally counts at face value against the total debt.
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   olfart said, 4 months ago

   I am curious about the zinc pennies currently being minted. What happens if you put one on the railroad track? Does it smash flat like the old ones, or does it shatter? Since I am a grumpy olfart without the patience to wait for a train, I guess I will have ask some kids. I’ll provide the pennies for the experiment!
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   wmconelly said, 4 months ago

   Ah, Mike Limbaugh Lester. Hey, Mike, when out of money, with a good education, an excellent credit rating, and a bundle of creative ideas, each with enormous remunerative potential – STOPPING SPENDING – makes about as much sense as stopping eating. About. There are physical benefits to controlled fasting. I see none in aborting economic growth in the name of (current) Republican Economy Theory.
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   Gore Bane said, 4 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   Does your outrage also extend to the Democrats who crafted a plan that cuts spending by $1 for every $14 in increased taxes? Look in the mirror the next time you call people names.
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   Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago

   If we can fix our economy by minting a piece of metal worth 1 Trillion dollars, do it. Platinum has many industrial uses, but if one coin, even one the size of a transatlantic cable spool will set the wagon back up on its wheels, do it. Gold, Silver, and other mines have been underpaying the US gov’t for minerals mined on public lands for decades.
   Hell, have a yard sale at the national museums if you have to. Put Dorothy’s ruby slippers on Craig’s list and the Hope Diamond on E-Bay. In a few decades, there’s a good chance the buyer will die and leave it to the Gov’t again.
   The point of this diatribe is the need to put people, animals, farmland, and the environment over “things”.
   If it’s collectin’ dust, it ain’t a “MUST”, as a friend once told me.
   That said…
   We should be able to do this in much more civilized way.
   But then again, we still have the same people under the Capital Dome, and their level of civilized behavior, and civility, is questionable.
   Pardon me, can you break a Trillion?
   Respectfully,
   but trying to keep my sense of humor,
   C.
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   Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago

   I think minting a couple of trillion dollar coins is a good idea and wonder why it took 2 weeks for cartoonists to recognize it.
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    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    @olfart

    Run a penny through the ‘souvenir penny press’ and tell us what happens. I saw one at an airport the other day. It doesn’t have to be an old solid copper one.
    It gets flattened.
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    Urban Space Cowboy said, 4 months ago

    Minting the platinum coins isn’t as important as showing the Republicans that they can’t push the President around. Also…China, for some reason? Whatever, still A Good Cartoon.
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    @Urban Space Cowboy

    We agree that the concept of the coin is to show the TEA Party (we’ll trash this nation by fighting over the “Debt Ceiling”) crowd that the debt ceiling is like the blue sky.
    .
    “Oh, I can only borrow this multiple of what’s in the treasury? Well I just made a trillion dollar deposit yesterday so I’m good to go.” The nation goes around the road block.
    .
    Good cartoon?
    .
    Mike Lester has both Mommy issues and Anal issues! The last cartoon was “Ooh lookie, Al Gore puppet likes having a hand up his butt. I’m such a bad boy.” This one focuses on the anus as well. That Mike Lester, he’s such a hemorrhoid!
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    ansonia said, 4 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    People tend to interpret what they see based on their own experiences and how they see life in general, so their interpretations say more about themselves than about the object.
    .
    Besides being a “glass-half-empty” kind of guy, I see that you are in need of psychiatric services. You don’t happen to own an AR 15, I hope.
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    ansonia said, 4 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    BTW, to prove my point, what is a ventriloquist?
    A man with his hand up a butt.
    Hahahahahahahahahhahaha.
    Couldn’t get much better…
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    Radish said, 4 months ago

    So what happens if you put a trillion dollar coin on the rail road tracks?
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