It’s a violation of privacy to get rid of cash.
It is not the governments business what we buy. Maybe how much we make so they can tax the hell out of it, but what we buy and where is none of their business.
If they get rid of cash the biggest black market known to history will crop up.
Imagine, making bartering illegal. Such as Ma Jones got thrown in the federal pen for trading 10 chickens for a pig. Seriously, if something similar ever happens it will be pure tyranny. The most heavily armed citizens in the world just might put an end to it.
But most people, even those old enough to know better, are going to an almost cashless society for the convenience. For people under age 40 or so, I doubt most of them have a clue that without economic freedom and privacy there is no freedom. It doesn't seem to bother most people that all of their purchases, and thus all of their activity, are computerized.
It's already happened with income. It goes automatically into an account. So where's the logic in having to take money out of that account, instead of just transferring it?
Look at health insurance. Nobody really pays for health care anymore. It's just a crazy swirl of data from one source to another, to the point where there's no logic or control concerning cost.
I pay for everything I can cash. Everything where cash isn't possible, by check....no automatic payments of anything. Most folks think that's weird.
But how else to ensure that all sales taxes are also being paid, but by monitoring all cash transactions?
(/sarcasm)
Regards,