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<p>[QUOTE="SanMiguel, post: 239298, member: 3379"]it's a private currency, like disney dollars and chuck e cheese tokens. two points i want to make:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) they're perfectly legal, so long as both the buyer and seller agree & recognize that liberty dollars aren't u.s. dollars. that's called bartering. </p><p>2) they're perfectly illegal if you try to pass them off as genuine currency. that's called conning someone.</p><p><br /></p><p>just as someone was arrested for trying to spend a million-dollar novelty note at wal-mart, the same will happen if you try spend liberty dollars pretending they're just as valid as u.s. currency. i'm bringing this up because according to their website, that's exactly what the makers want you to do. spend it whenever & wherever you want, all the while pretending nothing is out of the ordinary. </p><p><br /></p><p>i support bartering between two consenting individuals, support spending liberty dollars at businesses displaying a "liberty dollars accepted here" sign, and i support currency backed by precious materials. but i don't support passing off private issues as u.s. currency. if i ran a business and somebody tried to pay me with a franklin mint piece of junk, i'd kindly tell the person to come back with something i can pay my bills with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SanMiguel, post: 239298, member: 3379"]it's a private currency, like disney dollars and chuck e cheese tokens. two points i want to make: 1) they're perfectly legal, so long as both the buyer and seller agree & recognize that liberty dollars aren't u.s. dollars. that's called bartering. 2) they're perfectly illegal if you try to pass them off as genuine currency. that's called conning someone. just as someone was arrested for trying to spend a million-dollar novelty note at wal-mart, the same will happen if you try spend liberty dollars pretending they're just as valid as u.s. currency. i'm bringing this up because according to their website, that's exactly what the makers want you to do. spend it whenever & wherever you want, all the while pretending nothing is out of the ordinary. i support bartering between two consenting individuals, support spending liberty dollars at businesses displaying a "liberty dollars accepted here" sign, and i support currency backed by precious materials. but i don't support passing off private issues as u.s. currency. if i ran a business and somebody tried to pay me with a franklin mint piece of junk, i'd kindly tell the person to come back with something i can pay my bills with.[/QUOTE]
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