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      Would You Like That in Tens, Twenties or Normans?

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      Good article on alternative currency: The central purpose behind BerkShares is to strengthen the local economy, perhaps even inoculate it against the whims of globalization, by encouraging people to support local businesses. Amazon does not accept BerkShares, for example, but the Bookloft on Route 7 does.

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    Would You Like That in Tens, Twenties or Normans?

    It’s only illegal if you use it to avoid paying taxes! If you do your transactions in banans you still have to pay sales tax and federal income tax (in Federal Reserve dollars) but that doesn’t make doing the transactions in bananas illegal

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    9:40 am 2/28/07
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