Constitutionally minded members of Congress, Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and Representative Mike Lee of Utah, have introduced federal legislation that would exempt gold and silver coins issued by state governments as legal tender from federal taxation. This bill, called the Sound Money Protection Act, is intended to protect efforts by states to create a stable, inflation-free form of money. In particular, it would protect from federal gains taxation transaction between legal money in states which are species (e.g. gold or silver) and paper.

Utah has already passed a state law that recognizes these gold and silver coins as legal tender in Utah.  A dozen other states, Senator DeMint’s South Carolina, are considering similar laws.  Senator DeMint expressed the need from such state laws:

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