Popular Alaska Sound Money Bill Reintroduced
January 19th, 2024 • A measure to exempt gold and silver purchases from local sales tax has been reintroduced in Alaska. The bill has 21 cosponsors and will be considered by the Senate after passing the State House in 2023.
Vermont Representatives File Bill to End Sales Tax on Gold and Silver
January 19th, 2024 • Representatives in Vermont realize that their state has become a big outlier, and that it’s high time for the state to end their practice of taxing purchases of gold and silver.
NJ Governor Vetoes Popular Gold and Silver Sales Tax Exemption Bill
January 18th, 2024 • New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has unilaterally killed a bill that would have exempted the sales tax on purchases of gold and silver.
Kansas to Consider Eliminating Income Taxes on Gold and Silver
January 16th, 2024 • Lawmakers in Kansas have reintroduced legislation to eliminate the next biggest impediment to using gold and silver as money: capital gains taxes
Wisconsin Lawmakers Reintroduce Measure to End Sales Tax on Gold and Silver
January 15th, 2024 • A large bipartisan contingent of Wisconsin legislators have reintroduced legislation seeking to end Wisconsin’s outdated practice taxing purchases of gold and silver.
Kentucky Lawmakers Introduce Two Bills to End Sales Tax on Sound Money
January 15th, 2024 • Lawmakers in the Kentucky State House and State Senate have introduced seeking to end the state’s controversial practice of imposing sales taxes on all purchases of precious metals.
Georgia Introduces Bill To End Capital Gains Taxes on Gold and Silver
January 15th, 2024 • With inflation raging across America, a group of lawmakers in Georgia seek to end one of the strongest disincentives to owning and using gold and silver: capital gains taxes.
New Jersey Legislature Votes Unanimously to End Sales Tax on Gold and Silver
January 15th, 2024 • The New Jersey legislature has passed legislation to become the 44rd state in the country to end sales taxes on the purchase of physical gold and silver, pending action by Gov. Phil Murphy.
The Common Definition of "Inflation" Is Wrong! It's Just Government Propaganda
January 12th, 2024 • The Consumer Price Index for December came in hotter than expected but it’s a lot lower than it was a year ago. That means inflation is decreasing, right? Not so fast.
Our $34 Trillion Debt Is Turning the States to Gold
January 4th, 2024 • “Gold and silver are money,” the 2024 Sound Money Index notes, “not by government decree, but because they have proven to be over the test of time, by maintaining their value.” That insight is underscored, as the 2024 index is released, by the fac
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