I used to be skeptical of this sort of hack but I recently heard a very convincing argument:<p>Congress writes a budget for the government. The government should follow that budget. If Congress wants the government to borrow less it should write a smaller budget, not pass a high budget and instruct the government to default on the payments it promised.
Hmm, so if you steal trillion dollar coin. Pawn it off for metal value for very trusting friend and then that friends deposits it and later when you are out of jail gets you life long job?<p>Would that work?