Comment: Now I want to ask as a

Now I want to ask as a reasonable being - If you've spent a lot of time trying to educate someone who is ignorant and ungrateful, and they post something like this, is it safe to assume it isn't ignorance, but malice? And if so, why talk to such a person?

In response to the second paragraph, "Using" is not what legal tender means. "Using by government" is not what legal tender means. Legal tender means what the government can force you to accept or use in paying of debts that you are owed. That is the legal definition and easily looked up by anyone.

The federal government can issue all the tally sticks and paper it wants, but unless it has the power to force people to accept them - they aren't going to be worth anything.

The federal government was never given this power. Only States have the power, and it's restricted to silver and gold.

10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.