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California issuing IOU's?

Posted 35 months ago|6 comments|742 views
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jeanyang
Austin, TX
The state of California will begin to issue IOU's to its creditors in response to it's current deficit and the lack of consensus between the Democrats in legislature and the Republican governor on how to resolve a funding gap.
The legislature wants to pass the cost to the consumer by hiking taxes and fees. The Governor says he prefers an approach that solves the crisis by working within the budget alloted without raising taxes. If they fail to come to any agreement before the 30th of this month creditors, students, families will be receiving these slips.

My only response is; Will they be willing to accept an IOU from those who also owe them like those families struggling to keep up?
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35 months ago: Good question. It is my opinion this is a text book example of socialist programs out of control (illegal...oopss I'm mean undocumented workers cost Californian's 11 billion dollars in 2007, who knows or cares in 2008 it's a bad investment, period). Unfortunately it is also exactly where the current administration also seems to be taking us.
35 months ago: Will they have the state seal of CalifornIOU?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ciou

CIOU

yeah, yeah I know.
34 months ago: Jct: There’s nothing wrong with small denomination California State IOUs if I or anyone else can pay their taxes with them. When Argentina’s government workers were faced with cuts, their unions talked 6 state governments into paying them with small-denomination state bonds which could be used to pay for state services and taxes and which everyone accepted as useful currency. Best of all, when the local currency is pegged to the Time Standard of Money (how many dollars per unskilled hour child labor) Hours earned locally can be intertraded with other timebanks globally! In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with an IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours.
U.N. Millennium Declaration UNILETS Resolution C6 to governments is for a time-based currency to restructure the global financial architecture. See my banking systems engineering analysis at http://youtube.com/kingofthepaupers
Too bad California State IOUs won’t be accepted in payment for state taxes and services like state bonds were in Argentina. Too bad California State IOUs will be denominated too big to use as local currency. Too bad Argentina people were smart enough to avoid the tent-cities catastrophe and California people are too stupid to follow their example.
34 months ago: How dishonest. To issue an IOU and then not accept an IOU that you issued as payment for a debt owed to you! If all a person or company received in income was the IOU's, they wouldn't have any "real" cash to pay their debts to the government with. Don't play poker with these people!

Bad situation and the illegal immigrant load is not helping. Let's hope the CA legislature can figure out how to fix this, I'd hate to see the state of my birth file bankruptcy.
34 months ago: No kidding sixer!

I'll be happy for you to accept my little note.

Sorry, I need a cash payment.. that piece of paper is worthless.

Was that correct?
34 months ago: Pretty much sums it up.

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