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State-wide, there is an exemption on all precious metal purchases above $1,500, which means that investors seeking to buy more than an ounce (in 2015 prices) will not need to pay any kind of tax. If the purchase is less than this amount, the sales tax does apply, but this differs from region to region.

Stephen Miller
@StephenM
Oct 30
Conspiracy theories are dangerous & those promoting them must be silenced. Anyone involved in spreading the lies that Iraq had WMDs, that the Trump Campaign colluded with Russia, that covid came from nature, or that Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake, must have their accounts locked.

O ministro Alexandre de Moraes, do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), determinou o bloqueio das contas bancárias de 40 pessoas físicas e empresas de Mato Grosso, suspeitas de financiar os protestos contra a vitória de Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) para presidente.

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Court (STF), ordered the blocking of the bank accounts of 40 individuals and companies in Mato Grosso, suspected of financing the protests against the victory of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) for President.

Wait, color revolutions are baaaaad. Nevermind. Carry on.

Wait, color revolutions are baaaaad. Nevermind. Carry on.

Name a color revolution that improved the nation. Give me every example you can think of.

Nigel Farage wasn’t the only Brit getting de-banked this week. The UK Times ran a story yesterday headlined, “Yorkshire Building Society ‘Closed Vicar’s Account After Trans Protest’.”

The Yorkshire Building Society is a large, oddly-named British bank, having over three million customers. About two weeks ago, YBS emailed customers a monthly survey asking for feedback on the bank’s customer service and operations.

That’s where the trouble started.

Meet Anglican Vicar Richard Fothergill, 62, a satisfied YBS customer for over seventeen years. Well. He’s not satisfied anymore.

The good vicar, feeling a sense of loyalty and a desire only to be helpful, responded to the bank’s June 18th inquiry, politely offering among other more mundane feedback that the bank might consider dialing down all the rainbow-colored transgender ideology in its communications and on its website, suggesting instead that the bank “should concentrate their efforts on managing money, instead of promoting LGBT ideology.”

Seems fair.

But four days later, on June 22nd, Richard received a formal notice from his bank, responding to his feedback. It referenced his “views regarding LGBTQIA+,” and ominously advising the vicar that his feedback offended the bank’s “zero-tolerance approach to discrimination,” explaining his survey comments were “not tolerable.”

When asked by the Times for an explanation, YBS sort-of denied cancelling Vicar Fothergill, suggesting the pastor had been debunked for some reason other than his beliefs, but without exactly saying that, in a classic Orwellian statement:

We never close savings accounts based on different opinions regarding beliefs or feedback provided by our customers. We only ever make the difficult decision to close a savings account if a customer is rude, abusive, violent or discriminates in any way, based on the specific facts, comments and behaviour in each case.
“Discriminates in ANY WAY.” I wonder if in the bank’s view, Richard’s orthodox Christian beliefs are “discriminating in any way.”

Paradoxically, by de-banking Reverend Fothergill, YBS seems to have “discriminated in any way” against the vicar for his religious beliefs. Remember, ZERO tolerance. There’s only one way out of this paradox.

YBS should de-bank itself! It should refuse to do any business with itself any more.

Chase Bank Shuts Down Dr. Joseph Mercola's Business Bank Accounts, Including CEO, CFO, And Their Family Members
No Reason Given

The right answer is to use credit unions, which are local.

And have multiple accounts, at least two at two different credit unions.