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Rand Paul: So we have a change in the monetary medium of exchange imposed by government where dollar bills are withdrawn from…

On the recordNovember 28, 2012
So we have a change in the monetary medium of exchange imposed by government where dollar bills are withdrawn from circulation and replaced by dollar coins and the gain to government is wholly due to increased costs to the private sector.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Paul argues that the dollar coin proposal effectively acts as a tax on the private sector.

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