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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2895074, member: 71723"]Let me do it for you without running afoul of the rules. Many states have had bills introduced making silver and/or gold legal tender for some purposes, however that works. My state, Pennsylvania, is among those where the introduction has been done. So far, it is hopelessly mired in committee. In fact, the decision on which committee to even assign it to took a long time. The states where such bills have passed or are near passage tend to be western states with their own long-standing histories and/or culture in precious metals mining. There has been nearly NO momentum for such bills east of the Mississippi River. If an eastern state would make progress in this area, because of their gold mining histories, I'd suspect Georgia and/or North Carolina, again because of their gold rushes that caused there to be the Dahlonega and Charlotte mints, respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, it's hard to see how this would work from a practical perspective. Would current gold and silver prices be ubiquitously posted somehow? Let me tell you with absolute certainty - in the northeast, the percentage of people who even are remotely aware of the prices of precious metals is way way WAAAAY below 1%. The culture for it simply isn't here in the northeast. This is where Continental Currency thrived, paper money BEFORE there even was a U.S. Bullion money for actual trade has always been a mostly western phenomenon through most of our history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2895074, member: 71723"]Let me do it for you without running afoul of the rules. Many states have had bills introduced making silver and/or gold legal tender for some purposes, however that works. My state, Pennsylvania, is among those where the introduction has been done. So far, it is hopelessly mired in committee. In fact, the decision on which committee to even assign it to took a long time. The states where such bills have passed or are near passage tend to be western states with their own long-standing histories and/or culture in precious metals mining. There has been nearly NO momentum for such bills east of the Mississippi River. If an eastern state would make progress in this area, because of their gold mining histories, I'd suspect Georgia and/or North Carolina, again because of their gold rushes that caused there to be the Dahlonega and Charlotte mints, respectively. To me, it's hard to see how this would work from a practical perspective. Would current gold and silver prices be ubiquitously posted somehow? Let me tell you with absolute certainty - in the northeast, the percentage of people who even are remotely aware of the prices of precious metals is way way WAAAAY below 1%. The culture for it simply isn't here in the northeast. This is where Continental Currency thrived, paper money BEFORE there even was a U.S. Bullion money for actual trade has always been a mostly western phenomenon through most of our history.[/QUOTE]
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