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Stinky The Clown

(67,776 posts) Sat Mar 28, 2020, 11:40 PM Mar 2020

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Governors, try this: Form a purchasing consortium. Staff and fund it as corporation. Buy and . . . .

. . . . distribute what you need. Ignore Trump.

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Governors, try this: Form a purchasing consortium. Staff and fund it as corporation. Buy and . . . . (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Mar 2020 OP

They did that 230 years ago... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #1

I wonder if that could work. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #2

Why not? Limited scope. narrow purpose. Make it an LLC with an expiration date. Stinky The Clown Mar 2020 #3

Today Gov Pritzker of IL said they are doing that to some extent for some things. mucifer Mar 2020 #4

Gov. Coumo advocated this in his press conference yesterday morning. Sinistrous Mar 2020 #5

Yes. And fund it with state bonds. roamer65 Mar 2020 #6

Wounded Bear

(58,620 posts)

1. They did that 230 years ago...

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2020, 11:41 PM

Mar 2020

It's called the Federal government.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,658 posts)

2. I wonder if that could work.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2020, 11:43 PM

Mar 2020

Stinky The Clown

(67,776 posts)

3. Why not? Limited scope. narrow purpose. Make it an LLC with an expiration date.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 28, 2020, 11:49 PM

Mar 2020

mucifer

(23,521 posts)

4. Today Gov Pritzker of IL said they are doing that to some extent for some things.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 12:05 AM

Mar 2020

Sinistrous

(4,249 posts)

5. Gov. Coumo advocated this in his press conference yesterday morning.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 01:01 AM

Mar 2020

roamer65

(36,745 posts)

6. Yes. And fund it with state bonds.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 02:07 AM

Mar 2020

Force the Federal Reserve to buy up those bonds through QE. The Fed will monetize them to stop the competition with US Treasuries.

Also. States need to start running deficits. If individual Canadian provinces can do it, so can our states.

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