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patriotcalendar
12-27-2007, 08:40 PM
I found this floating around on the net (wish I could remember where!).. but..

I thought this could be a GREAT way to introduce friends to free market concepts and Dr. Paul's economic principles :)

Invite friends over for a game of "FreeMarketOpoly"!


Try playing the board game Monopoly with this change of the rules.

Eliminate the central bank being the only source of loans and mortgages.

Allow loans between players. Each time a player passes GO he makes an installment payment on all his outstanding loans. Payment size is negotiable with whoever holds his note.

Establish a Real Estate Investment Trust mutual money fund and require each player to make a deposit in any amount each time they pass go. Keep track of balance accrued for each player. Allow any player who lands directly on Go to decide if the Mutual Fund can buy any property on the board at its face value including improvements if made by another player. The mutual fund has to have sufficient cash funds to cover the sale and the deed is placed in control of the Mutual Fund. The Mutual Fund cannot sell properties it holds to cover the purchase.

Whenever a player lands on a property owned by the Mutual Fund, the rent paid is apportioned to the current balances based on relative percent of fund shares owned. When a player lands on vacant property, he can use his account balance in the mutual fund to buy the property. He cannot use his fund balance to buy property held by another player.

The Mutual Fund can vote to hold an auction sale to liquidate deeds held by the fund.

Switch the objective of the game from driving out all competition and leaving only one player standing. The game objective is to fully develop all properties until all the game pieces representing development are on the board or all the currency is gone from the central bank as it depletes from players passing GO. Create new game pieces to represent movie theaters, factories, shopping malls, or amusement parks to add to the homes and hotels. Play stops when the central bank is empty of currency. Or if you want to continue play, have every remaining player pay a flat tax on all the currency they hold. No tax on property assets or mutual fund balance.

There is the possibility for a player or two to go bust during the course of play but in the end there will be several players left. The winner is who has the highest net worth of the remaining players.

A free economy works rather nicely without a central bank charging interest on the currency issued.

We really don't need the Federal Reserve.

You will appreciate this if you play Monopoly with the rules outlined above.

The players, not the central bank, are the real wealth definers.

Break the Monopoly of the Federal Reserve!

Elect Ron Paul. He will guide us in the creation of new game rules for Our the Peoples economy.

Meetup groups could sponsor BIG "FreeMarketOpoly" parties! Gather several monopoly games together, set up a game night, and distribute flyers to the public!

Why the hell not?!

BeFranklin
12-27-2007, 08:55 PM
Looks like an interesting game.

Maybe you could create some Ron Paul Dollars to go with the game, and let players take them home.

Ron Paul Dollars
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=64391&highlight=ron+dollar+bomb

patriotcalendar
12-27-2007, 09:13 PM
Maybe you could create some Ron Paul Dollars to go with the game, and let players take them home.



Hey, cool idea! Thanks for chiming in! :)

BeFranklin
12-27-2007, 09:45 PM
Looks like good rules. Lets start this as a project.

We can replace the train on the dollar bills with a blimp.

I have links to high rez pictures of the monopoly money and original ron paul coin
for the center piece we can use.

xCakex
12-27-2007, 09:52 PM
Looks like good rules. Lets start this as a project.

We can replace the train on the dollar bills with a blimp.

I have links to high rez pictures of the monopoly money and original ron paul coin
for the center piece we can use.

NICE! Another fast approaching event for meet up groups. http://www.ronpaulmarch.com

BeFranklin
12-27-2007, 10:56 PM
Think we need some good graphic designers, and everything can go in PDF files to printout. (Also a nice graphic cover and instructions).

FYI Ron Paul reminds me a little of the tycoon and prosperity; his ideas are the real, wealth generating ideas of prosperity (and freedom),
so I'd like a Ron Paul figurine I can take around the board too :)

BeFranklin
12-28-2007, 03:14 AM
Ok, the graphics are being designed, and quotes are being worked on. I came up with this list of Ron Paul writings that might be used for quotes - I know it is not an exhaustive list, so if anyone else has works or specific Ron Paul quotes to suggest, please post them.


The Most Dangerous Monopolist
Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul380.html

Greenspan's Monopoly Money
It's the mother's milk of tyranny.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul125.html

The Inflation Tax
Ron Paul on the inflation tax.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul334.html

Your Enemy, the Fed
Ron Paul on what it does to your savings.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul333.html

Sound Money
Ron Paul explains economics to the Joint Economic Committee.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul421.html

The Fed Rate Cut
Ron Paul on another monetary disaster.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul418.html

What the Fed Has Done to Us
Ron Paul on the Big Counterfeiter.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul410.html

Why the Credit Markets Are a Mess
Ron Paul on the culprit.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul404.html

Hans F. Sennholz, RIP
Ron Paul remembers a great economist.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul397.html

Don't Blame the Market
For the housing bubble, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul376.html

What the Fed Is Doing to the Economy
Ron Paul on Bernanke's mischief.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul370.html

Monetary Depreciation and Killing
Ron Paul on inflation and war finance.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul364.html

Don't Blame the Euro
Blame the Congress and the Fed, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul358.html

'The' Problem
It's monetary inflation, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul354.html

The Land of the Free Lunch
It will, or ought to, miss Milton Friedman, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul352.html

Ron Paul vs. Ben Bernanke
On "plunge protection," fiat money, and the Fed.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul340.html

Thanks, Ben
Ron Paul on the declining dollar and eroding personal savings.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul324.html

Upset at Gas Prices?
Look at US foreign and monetary policy, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul323.html

The Sicker and Sicker Dollar
Ron Paul on what the gold price is telling us.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul319.html

The Perils of Economic Ignorance
And what to do about it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul311.html

The Nature of Government Debt
Those who borrow never repay.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul309.html

A Real DC Scandal
Ron Paul on the Fed.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul302.html

What Do Rising Gold Prices Mean?
Less faith in the paper dollar.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul293.html

Rothbard vs. Bernanke
Ron Paul on continuing Fed propaganda, and the antidote.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul292.html

Hey, Big Spender
Ron Paul on the feds.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul272.html

Borrowing, Spending, Counterfeiting
Ron Paul on the federal parasite.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul271.html

Questioning Greenspan
Ron Paul vs. the Counterfeiter-in-Chief, 1997-2005.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul253.html

Ron Paul and Alan Greenspan
Mr. Sound Money vs. the Counterfeiter-in-Chief.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul267.html

Questions for Greenspan
The famed Q&A between Ron Paul and the Fed chairman, 1997-2004.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul253.html

The Guilty Fed
Ron Paul on dollar erosion.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul251.html

No More Bank Bailouts
Not by the taxpayers.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul249.html

The Dying Dollar
Exposed by gold.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul221.html

The Wages of Empire
Debt, debt, and more debt.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul184.html

The Folly of Fed Interest Rates
Ron Paul on the damage of Greenspanism.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul166.html

A Perennial Gift From Greenspan
Monetary depreciation.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul163.html

Inflation
It's alive and well, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul162.html

That Old Black Magic
Ron Paul on Greenspan's machinations.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul159.html

Hey, Greenspan
Stop ignoring the monetary shark in the water, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul158.html

Greenspan Confesses to Ron Paul
The Fed has inordinate power.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul156.html

The Disappearing Dollar
The answer is gold, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul146.html

Paper Money and Tyranny
Ron Paul on the chilling connection.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul124.html

Bring Back Honest Money
Ron Paul on repealing legal tender.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul118.html

Greenspan Punishes Savers
Ron Paul on the evil central bank.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul112.html

Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve
A video with Ron Paul, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Joseph Salerno, and Lew Rockwell.
http://mm.mises.org/?/video/Fed.wmv

Greenspan Is To Blame
Ron Paul on the sainted Fed chairman.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul104.html

Government's False Prosperity
And real recessions.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul75.html

Abolish the Fed
Ron Paul introduces legislation to do exactly that.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul53.html

Hey, Greenspan
Why does the US adhere to an IMF injunction against sound money? Ron Paul wants to know.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul47.html

Ron vs. Alan
Hard questions for Greenspan from Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul46.html

The Declining Dollar
Ron Paul on why gold is the answer.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul38.html

Honest Money, Not Fiat Money
And no federal police state, says Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul18.html

Get Us Out of the IMF
Ron Paul on Keynes's rotten International Monetary Fund.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul17.html

Stop Manipulating the Gold Price
Ron Paul's message to the feds.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/paul15.html

Economic Terror
Thanks to Osama Bin Federal.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/paul14.html

High-Risk Credit
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul404.html

Has Capitalism Failed?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul42.html