"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Man Tries to Pay Tax with 200,000 Pennies
- Login to post comments
User Login
Search This Site
Related Columns
Recent comments
Root Strikers
Non-Voting
Civil Disobedience
Reprint Rights
Comments
"Under the Currency Act, nobody is obliged to accept more than 25 pennies as payment for any product or service."
Property Tax is not a "product or service". Payment proffered and refused, debt negated.
Canada rules may be different than USA rules.
But the guy should have kept the pennies for the metal content. Even zinc is worth more than paper. 2,000 paper ones is still a nice protest. I'm sure that if they are "worn" enough, they would even jam the currency counter machines.
The Currency Act is a Canadian act. That quote was from the last line of the article.