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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1516044, member: 112&quot;]For the millions of them that the mint sells, the business strikes, there is no difference at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They don&#039;t. The mint sells the business strikes to the approved list of buyers, and only the approved list of buyers, for a small percentage over the costs to mint the coins. Then those approved buyers sell the business strikes to the public for an additional small percentage over what they paid. In the end, what the public pays for business strike ASEs is about the same as they pay for any silver round.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What you are doing is comparing the collector sets of ASEs that the mint sells to silver rounds. You claim the prices they charge for these collector sets are outrageous, but in reality they aren&#039;t. The <u>law</u> dictates what the mint has to charge for the collector sets. And the law dictates that mint must sell at a price that is higher than the production costs. If you read the annual mint reports you will find that what the mint charges for these collector sets is only a small percentage over and above the actual production costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a very valid reason for this happening. That reason is to prevent you the tax payer from paying the bill for items collected by coin collectors. In other words, the costs is passed on to the people who want the coins and nobody else. Would you rather it be different than that ?</p><p><br /></p><p>The way the US Mint operates is the one and only portion of our government that actually operates in a way that makes sense. It operates at absolute zero cost to the tax payer.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, we don&#039;t. The only people that pay 1 cent for any of the collectors sets issued by the mint are the coin collectors. And that is by choice, <u>their choice</u> !</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the first place there is more to it than silver cost alone. There are also the production costs. All of the people who work for the mint have to get paid, all of the equipment has be paid for, all of the utility bills, the furniture for the offices, etc etc etc - all of that has to be paid for. And by law it has to be paid with zero expenditure of tax dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, the only people who pay 1 cent for any of it, are the people who want the coins. Is there something wrong with the idea that people who want something should have to pay for it ? And not everybody else ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know about you, but that makes perfect sense to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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