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Members of the New Jersey Legislature are seeking to enact A5294, which would help to restore sound money.
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Please help enact A5294 by contacting your state legislators. Urge them to support strong legislation that enforces the U.S. Constitution and restores sound monetary policy.
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URGENT; ACT NOW: The New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee passed sound-money bill A5294 by a 12-1 vote, sending it to the Senate floor for consideration. Once the full Senate passes A5294, it will only need the governor’s signature to go into effect.
The current lame-duck session ends this week, so there is little time to enact A5294. Contact your senator, and urge him or her to support and enact A5294.
Members of the New Jersey Legislature are seeking to enact legislation helping to restore sound money.
Assembly, No. 5294 (A5294) is sponsored by Assemblyman Louis Greenwald (D-Voorhees). If enacted, A5294 would create a sales-tax exemption for “investment metal bullion and investment coins.” This is a small but important step toward treating gold and silver as money — as the U.S. Constitution requires.
Article I, Section 10, of the U.S. Constitution plainly states that “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” It’s long overdue that states begin to enforce this provision once again. According to the Sound Money Index, New Jersey is the second-least constitutionally compliant state on monetary policy. Enacting A5294 would be a good first step toward adhering to the U.S. Constitution.
Additionally, A5294 is a good step toward nullifying the unconstitutional Federal Reserve, which has a monopoly on money.
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution obligates state officials to uphold the Constitution and nullify all laws not “made in Pursuance” of it. Officials at all levels of government must push back against the federal government’s many unconstitutional laws and agencies, and robustly enforce the Constitution and only those laws “made in Pursuance thereof.” A5294 is a good step toward doing this on the topic of monetary policy.
Urge your state representative and senator to support A5294, and to fully restore sound money in New Jersey.
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