Billings Gazette, in its November 14, 2012 article, reports that Montana lawmaker asks state to pay him in gold and silver over dollar concerns.
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KALISPELL — A legislator from Columbia Falls is asking the state
to pay him in gold and silver coins because he is skeptical about the future
of the dollar.
Republican Rep. Jerry O'Neil justified
his request in his letter to Montana Legislative Services this week by saying
a clause in the U.S. Constitution says no state shall "make anything but
gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts."
O'Neil writes that he thinks the high
national debt makes it possible that the bottom will fall out from under the
U.S. dollar.
O'Neil says he does not know how
Legislative Services will respond.
But he said he is trying to get people
to start thinking about what will happen if the U.S. currency collapses.
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