I came up with this when I was 15...the idea has been floating around Washington D.C. for a decade.
Here it is - the U.S. Debt is over $28 trillion dollars and the President can issue a $1 trillion "commemorative" coin, deposit with the Federal Reserve and then the government can start paying those bills. #MintTheCoin has been trending.
I did the math...we will need at least 30 of these $1 trillion dollar coins. And what happens if the President loses the coin between the car seats?
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Treasury secretary of the United States, Janet Yellen, finally said she does not intend to mint a platinum coin worth $1 trillion -
"It’s really a gimmick and what’s necessary is for Congress to show that the world can count on America paying its debts,"
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