Make your purchases count for more
Offend while you spend! God Off Money:
Use a marker to line-out the words "In God We Trust" on all currency, then write "www.godoffmoney.com"
This sounds legal by any reasonable reading of the Treasury Department's description of their code:
Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Like always, a lay reading of law isn't necessarily useful in the absence of familiarity with precedents. Would a court consider the argument that this rendered them unfit to be reissued? I don't know. And investigation of defacement of currency is the business of the Secret Service (which is, of course, under the Treasury Department — the former CEO of Alcoa bears responsibility for keeping the president alive.)
Related fun: Where's George?, a Book Crossing for dollars.
(Via Metafilter)
Cut off 36% of your dollar bills, then write "NoMoreIncomeTax.com" on the shorn side. That's more important, and no less ridiculous.
Posted by Timprov on September 9 2002 08:40
send me info, tax levy victim, how can I stop this
Posted by Louis Hutcherson on October 23 2003 19:10