If Democrats were committed to breaking Congressional deadlock they would hold the defense authorization bill, and not their own agenda, as a hostage. But it's going to sail through Congress like it always does.
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It does! The law was sloppily worded around platinum seignorage in particular, leaving this loophole. The coin is not free money, but an accounting trick that would nix the annual debt ceiling drama. The main objection (pre-Trump) was that it's ridiculoushttps://twitter.com/jogehrs/status/1440687334370861066 …
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Pretty tired of seeing the Democratic party still humbly ask the referees for rulings when we've been playing Calvinball for years.
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If you need to pass a giant kitchen sink bill with your entire policy agenda, why not put the Pentagon budget in it?
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seems like a great idea for a heist movie
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Does it HAVE to be platinum?
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When you account for revenue from heist movies about stealing the Big Coin, it pays for itself.
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I want to see the heist movie about trying to spend the coin (which n.b. doesn't have to be physically large).
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