A look at TUC's website shows that they (The United Cities Group) has concocted its own funny money, which it calls "United States Notes" and which bear a close resemblance to the actual United States Notes issued by the US Treasury until 1966.
http://theunitedcities.org/web/index.ph ... &Itemid=14
The genuine United States Notes were authorized by an 1862 Act of Congress, which authorized the issuance of up to $300 Million (in total face value) of United States Notes as legal tender; this law remained on the books until 1982, when it was replaced by a similar provision that called that paper money United States
Currency Notes, but the United States Notes, under their original title, remain legal tender and counterfeiting them is a still a crime.
The genuine United States Notes were commonly called "Legal Tender Notes" because of their peculiar legal character: Until the Act that created them, all US paper money was explicitly redeemable in precious metal coins, and essentially served as chits for that precious metal, and the value of the paper money was immediately dependent on the fact that it could be exchanged for gold or silver. But the United States Notes did not purport to be exchangeable for precious metal (in fact, a Supreme Court decision later held that the holder of United States Notes could not insist on cashing them in for precious metal), but derived their value solely because of Congressional authorization pursuant to the Constitution. In theory the United States Notes were back by other, less easily measured, assets of the federal government, such as National Forests and the like. But United States Notes were legal tender only by Act of Congress (in this respect, Federal Reserve Notes are at least backed by Treasury Bonds), and the initial designs contained conspicuous text to that effect, so they were called "Legal Tender Notes".
If TUC has actually printed up any of the funny money in its illustration it's in a lot of trouble.
By the way, elsewhere on its website it has the conspiracy myth about JFK's Executive Order 11110, .... taken directly from Louis Farrakhan's weekly tabloid, an interesting choice for a source.
