US man pays tax bill using five wheelbarrows of coins
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#2If you play stupid games you will win stupid prizes
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#3> Nick Stafford's coin payment required 11 people who were hired to break open the paper rolls of the coins, taking four hours.
So you are telling me this 'Businessman' wasted 11 peeps x 4 hours x 10$ min wage = $440, to 'make a statement' to IRS and pay his $400 tax bill with pennies / coins?!
What kind of a businessman does that? What a waste of man power.
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#4> Nick Stafford's coin payment required 11 people who were hired to break open the paper rolls of the coins, taking four hours. So you are telling me this 'Businessman' wasted 11 peeps x 4 hours x 10$ min wage = $440, to 'make a statement' to IRS and pay his $400 tax bill with pennies / coins?! What kind of a businessman does that? What a waste of man power.
"$3,000 tax bill using five wheelbarrows containing 300,000 coins."
Right in the caption.
A smart business man. He has gotten a lot of free publicity out of it.
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#5Take that cashless society advocates!
Wait...
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#6> Nick Stafford's coin payment required 11 people who were hired to break open the paper rolls of the coins, taking four hours. So you are telling me this 'Businessman' wasted 11 peeps x 4 hours x 10$ min wage = $440, to 'make a statement' to IRS and pay his $400 tax bill with pennies / coins?! What kind of a businessman does that? What a waste of man power.
"$3,000 tax bill using five wheelbarrows containing 300,000 coins." Right in the caption. A smart business man. He has gotten a lot of free publicity out of it.
> A smart business man. He has gotten a lot of free publicity out of it.
I can do a lot of things for attention; it doesn't make me smart.
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#7> Nick Stafford's coin payment required 11 people who were hired to break open the paper rolls of the coins, taking four hours. So you are telling me this 'Businessman' wasted 11 peeps x 4 hours x 10$ min wage = $440, to 'make a statement' to IRS and pay his $400 tax bill with pennies / coins?! What kind of a businessman does that? What a waste of man power.
one who is fed up with dealing with an overwhelming bureaucracy.
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#8> Nick Stafford's coin payment required 11 people who were hired to break open the paper rolls of the coins, taking four hours. So you are telling me this 'Businessman' wasted 11 peeps x 4 hours x 10$ min wage = $440, to 'make a statement' to IRS and pay his $400 tax bill with pennies / coins?! What kind of a businessman does that? What a waste of man power.
If he wanted to make a public statement and get publicity for his views, $440 to get on the BBC and various other news outlets seems like a good deal.
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#9Not legal tender in Australia. They could just refuse to accept it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender
Re: US man pays tax bill using five wheelbarrows of coins
#10> Nick Stafford's coin payment required 11 people who were hired to break open the paper rolls of the coins, taking four hours. So you are telling me this 'Businessman' wasted 11 peeps x 4 hours x 10$ min wage = $440, to 'make a statement' to IRS and pay his $400 tax bill with pennies / coins?! What kind of a businessman does that? What a waste of man power.
Surely he was also required to pay the extra costs for the transaction at the receiving end? I can't imagine the authority was somehow required to accept his coin payment, and not only accept but do it for free?