After 155 years, Ben Franklin's "Money License" Could Soon Be Legal Again! 13 U.S. States Could Soon Legalize Franklin’s Special “Money License”. We all know Benjamin Franklin was rich.
But did you know this Great American owed the biggest part of his fortune not to bifocal glasses, the lightning rod or "Poor Richard's Almanack". But to a unique type of "Money License"?
It's true! You see, old Ben was a smart guy. He figured out a way to add £770,000—the equivalent of $143 million in today's dollars—to Pennsylvania's balance sheet.
For his efforts, he was richly rewarded. In fact, Franklin special "money license" enabled him to set up a trust that paid out millions of dollars... for over 200 years!
His method worked so well that—according to some historians—it caused the Federal government to ban it in 1863.
But today, 13 U.S. states could be on the verge of reinstating a new version of Franklin's "money license." And for some lucky Americans, it could mean a fortune.
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