(22) I own a beauty shop

How does an extra $50,000 a year sound? Many beauty parlors traditionally take advantage of barter. One, owned by Maria, has eight chairs. At the start of each year, Marie prints $50,000 in Private Trade Dollar certificates and makes purchases in amounts ranging between $5,000 and $10,000 each month until the $50,000 has been spent for trade each year. When used up, Maria does no more trading until the next year when she repeats the process. She is, however, thinking of increasing the amount to $75,000 a year because trading has proved so successful for her. Forty percent of the trading she does is to get restaurant scrip and her employees get this for servicing trade customers. The other sixty percent buys goods and services for the business and as a result of these policies she has little adverse tax consequences from trading. Most of her Private Trade Dollar purchases are for print advertising and for printing. Marie is certain that her barter advertising brings in enough cash business to make trading more than worthwhile. Some of her other purchases have been for sign work, window replacement, a telephone system for her business and four ceiling fans. Once we fully grasp the fact that the Private Trade Dollar System trading is entirely new business for both parties using vanishing inventories, and not a substitute for a cash sale by anyone, we will know its power.

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