Sanders's Wall Street Attacks Strike Home in New Hampshire Town

[Omaha Steve]

Tri-City Bicycles owner Mark Traeger stands in his shop in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Feb. 6, 2016. Photographer: Esmé E. Deprez

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-08/sanders-s-wall-street-attacks-strike-home-in-new-hampshire-town

February 8, 2016 — 4:00 AM CST

Five-dollar bills in the cash register at Tri-City Bicycles in Rochester, New Hampshire, send customers a message stamped in red ink: “Not 2 B used 2 bribe politicians.”

Owner Mark Traeger’s frustration with what he calls a rigged economy has become a central theme in the Democratic presidential primary. Tri-City can’t park profits overseas to dodge taxes. It can’t pony up the big campaign contributions or the rich speaking fees over which insurgent candidate Bernie Sanders has been attacking Hillary Clinton.

“If I call the Cayman Islands or Ireland and say, ‘You know what? I want to have all my checks and cash direct-deposited over there,’ the IRS comes and pays me a visit Monday morning,” said Traeger, 51, a registered independent. “There’s two games going on.”
Traeger, who plans to vote for Sanders on Tuesday, embodies a populist rage that has vaulted the Vermont senator past Clinton in polls here. Sanders has stressed what he says is the outsize influence of Wall Street and corporations, and his own reliance on individual donors instead of super-PACs. Clinton has countered that she has a record of rigor on banks and a realistic plan for regulating them, all the while struggling to explain her rationale for taking $675,000 for speeches to employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

FULL story at link.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin'

[Omaha Steve]

3. Thanks

[CharlotteVale]

2. K&R

[Jefferson23]

4. Ha ha, I want one of those stamps..thanks Steve. n/t

[bpcmxr]

8. Here you go!

Stamp Stampede:
http://www.stampstampede.org

[Jefferson23]

9. Thank you so much for that link, those are great.

I may have to buy all three

[Petrushka]

14. Thank you for the link . . . which I'll post on my Facebook page.

[Dems to Win]

5. k and r

[Fawke Em]

6. They should strike home in every town.

We're all being sold down the river.

[Punkingal]

7. Love this! Thanks for posting!

[kracer20]

10. Love the message!

But, is it legal to do this?

[PonyUp]

11. Says it is here:

http://www.stampstampede.org/pages/legal

Yes, It's Legal!

Many people assume that it’s illegal to stamp or write on paper currency, but that’s not the case. It’s illegal to destroy paper currency or deface it so much that it’s no longer recognizable and has to be taken out of circulation. But that’s definitely not what we’re up to.

You can read what our lawyer had to say about this and see the relevant sections of the law below. You can also download it here. If your intent is to make the money unusable, it’s illegal; but we want our bills to be used over and over again! Also, it is illegal to put a commercial advertisement on money. But we are putting political messages on the bills, not commercial advertisements. Because we all want these bills to stay in circulation and we're stamping to send a message about an issue that's important to us, it's legal!

[SoapBox]

12. We better get Bernie elected and make that Political Revolution happen...

Before the Entrenched Elites try to make it illegal, to stamp money with such messages!

Stamp away!

[zentrum]

13. Fabulous. nt

[Petrushka]

15. I've posted the link on my Facebook page. Thank you!

[Plucketeer]

16. Thanx!

My stamp is on it's way to me!

[Omaha Steve]

18. Got a link?

[forest444]

17. Of course that Five isn't to be used to bribe politicians.

They take theirs in wire transfers to Cayman Islands LLC accounts, thankyouverymuch.