{"id":2655,"date":"2024-11-14T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2024-11-14T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:47:47","slug":"trumps-attorney-general-pick-matt-gaetz-once-proposed-collecting-federal-income-taxes-in-bitcoin-apart-from-co-sponsoring-bill-to-abolish-the-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Attorney General Pick Matt Gaetz Once Proposed Collecting Federal Income Taxes In Bitcoin, Apart From Co-sponsoring Bill To Abolish The Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President-elect <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> has picked Rep. <strong>Matt Gaetz<\/strong> (R-Fla.) as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/legal\/24\/11\/41956594\/matt-gaetz-is-trumps-attorney-general-pick-would-be-top-cop-is-under-house-ethics-investigation\">nominee for attorney general<\/a> under the incoming administration.<\/p>\n<p>A controversial figure, Gaetz has been known for pushing radical proposals in favor of cryptocurrencies, especially <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Earlier in June, he introduced a bill that would allow federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/cryptocurrency-tax-guide\">income tax payments<\/a> to be made in the apex cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz had said that the intention behind proposing the bill was to promote innovation, increase efficiency, and offer more flexibility to American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Key provisions of the proposed law included the rapid conversion of received Bitcoin to its dollar equivalent at &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/41964758\/trumps-attorney-general-pick-matt-gaetz-once-proposed-collecting-federal-income-taxes-in-b\" alt=\"Trump's\" attorney general pick matt gaetz once proposed collecting federal income taxes in bitcoin apart from co-sponsoring bill to abolish the fed>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump has picked Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as the nominee for attorney general under the incoming administration. A controversial figure, Gaetz has been known for pushing radical proposals in favor of cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). What happened: Earlier in June, he introduced a bill that would allow federal income tax payments to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}