The Pennsylvania Assembly charged a small interest on the paper currency it issued, and that financed the government. Á ríkið að eiga allt fjármagnsbókhaldið, og á að fjármagna Ríkiskassann, með smá vöxtum á fjármagnið frá bönkunum?

 Setjum af stað umræður færustu, lærðustu karla og kvenna, um fjármagns bókhaldið, fyrirfram prentuðu bókhaldsnóturnar, sem við köllum peninga.

Allir lesi sér til um málefnið, og látum ekki spila á okkur meira.

Fjölmiðla eignin verður að vera undir stjórn fólksins, og jafnframt tryggt að öll sjónarmið fái umfjöllun.

Nú er eignarhald á flestum fjölmiðlum í höndum bakstjórnarinnar, og einnig allt menntakerfið, og þá kennslu efnið.

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Thus, taking away from the colonists the right to issue their own money was indeed a grievance, but it was one of many and does not appear in the Declaration of Independence.

I made this point to Professor LeMay, who replied:

Dear Anthony,

Franklin objected to the English acts denying some colonies the right to make money because the Penns used that dodge to turn down the Pennsylvania Assembly bills.

The Pennsylvania Assembly charged a small interest on the paper currency it issued, and that financed the  government.

Penn (ie, Thomas Penn) scorned the assembly and wanted it at his mercy, so he generally had his governors turn down paper money bills. They said that Parliament would not want them to pass such bills. (They used that dodge rather than say Thomas Penn had forbidden them to do so, and taken out a bond for five thousand pounds that they would do

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Egilsstaðir, 30.09.2018  Jónas Gunnlaugsson