Posted on 08/27/2023 12:26:52 PM PDT by Libloather
The very same TPTB are demanding a cashless society.
I am guessing the homeless will soon receive govt cards with universal free digital money on them.
Either that, or they will start fining businesses for door locks, locked item cases and security systems, because these discriminate against thieves from all kinds of “difficult” backgrounds and hard times.
United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.
31 U.S. Code § 5103 - Legal tender
That’s when you load up your cart with frozen foods and meat.
You don’t accept cash? Bye.
Leave the cart. Make sure you have several cartons of ice cream in the cart too.
they want to make sure businesses keep accepting cash, so their voters have something to steal when they rob these businesses!
Yes & no. Yes, it’s deeply satisfying making the cashier realize all the sales they could have made are not going to happen, but no, because that Store Policy comes from the store owners. The Cashiers have zero control over it. Now they have to clean all that fouled merchandise up or throw it out. Oh, joy!
As long as they are complaining about cashless stores, how about “no cashier” stores as well?
Thought most tax payer funded transfer payments were already electronic?
No federal mandate...state & local laws may vary:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/accounting/can-business-refuse-cash-is-it-legal/
I’m one of a small number of consumers who prefers having a live cashier. I don’t mind the brief interaction, so long as the worker is accurate and fairly polite. It is rare, these days when I have to deal with a Motor-mouth cashier who won’t shut up. There’s too many other questions that must be asked instead.
Paper or plastic? Debit or credit? Will you be “Giving Back” your change to a charity?
it’s a start. needs to be worldwide. don’t kill cash.
if you don’t want to use cash, fine. stay out of this battle and let others do the fighting.
They are not my “friend” either, but they are in fact my “ally” in this instance.
Very different things. I wouldn’t consider myself allied with them either, merely that our interests appear to coincide in this one matter. Not what I’d call an alliance.
BS. Poor, POC, homeless don’t need cash. They just take.
A sincere “thank you”; I learned something new today. And any day I learn something I didn’t previously know, is a good day.
As long as the transaction is legally “a dollar”, whether it’s cash, check, coin, or I guess a virtual transaction - as long as both parties agree - seems it’s legal.
I understand, not sure I agree with the wisdom, but I understand.
Understood. But it’s better than nothing.
Pretty much what I said in the first place.
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