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To: Brander who wrote (1042)	11/3/1997 10:17:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3744

I have it: the inflato dollar. It's rubber. When you go to pay for something todays index is built into a frame. When the index goes up the frame shrinks and the inflato dollar is compressed and the difference shows up in the frame's indicator. When prices go down the frame gets bigger and the dollar buys more. The index is calculated from the bloomberg average of all the commodities sold in America in stores today by the ounce or sq inch. Every day the commmindex is calculated and the frames set. Coinage would make up the difference on the rubber dollar. That way nothing has to change in price, just the dollar and since the index would not change as it is set by prices then the costs always stay the same. At first you might think this circular. But you don't change the price, just the index, right? so if the index is set by the price? !! Rubbah dollah no inflation E Chatuh is the savyuh of the nation. echarter@vianet.on.ca

To: Brander who wrote (1042)	11/5/1997 8:23:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3744

I got it! The poundo roundo. Smallest unit of currency is one poundo roundo. It is represented by a milled circle of stone 3 feet in diameter and 9 inches thick. In its center is a hole 1 foot in diameter.(For stacking) You have to wheel these poundo roundos to the store to pay for anything. Since they weigh 778 pounds you do not undertake purchases lightly and anyone raising prices on you once you have wheeled a poundo roundo into his establishment and agreed to a contract is risking rough justice. It would cure impulse buying and random shopping about and promote in depth expenditures at fewer merchants. Inflation would be not something anyone would want to contemplate. Can you imagine them saying coffee is now going to cost you two poundo roundos today? Last thing they would ever say. EC<:-} And while we are at it. Make credit cards the size of surfboards. You keep them on top of your car, mag strip down. When you go to use them, two men take it and run it along a strip reader on a trolley the length of a building. It produces a paper record 39 inches by 60 feet that is rolled up and must be signed by the auditor generalis de creditus in each town, published in the newspaper beside the court report and then is mailed to your husband for final approval. If this passes committee then the goods are delivered ten days later. It works in government. And finally. All goods sold by town merchants would be required to be published with this week's prices in an electronic record on the net. Customers could search the record to find the cheapest goods offered of that category in the area.

To: Brander who wrote (1042)	11/5/1997 9:21:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3744

Brad; How about a labor based unit, with skilled workers getting a multiple of the basic, and with a guaranteed income via a negative income tax.? All workers owned part of production in basic shares you could not sell and which gave you a subsistence living. Wages above that were in saleable shares, that you could keep, and they had earnings. So if you saved after a while your shares could give you a good living. This came out of the late 19th and early 20th century and was called syndicalism. Bill