Posted on 07/15/2007 6:38:21 PM PDT by spartagroup
AP news story, 7/15/2007
Texas became the first state in which stores announced they would accept Mexican pesos as legal tender.
The above is a legitimate headline from today's news.
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A local convenience store clerk constantly complains about efforts to buy the store’s products with pesos.
Got no problem with it. We traveled all over Europe and could cash in dollars just about anyplace. Also marks, frances, etc. (All Euro now.)
The point is, though, that all those places made money on us through both the exchange rate and the processing fee.
Do you have a direct link to this?
I was stationed in Japan for something like 14 years while in the Navy and all the restaurants and bars that catered to service members off base took US Dollars but the exchange rate wasn't nearly what you'd get at a money changer or the bank that's for sure.
merchants in the Texas Rio Grande valley have always accepted Pesos at least they did 25 years ago.
barbra ann
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=texas+stores+accept+pesos
Some stories about the Dallas store that was just in the news. Also links to the Pizza store with locations in TX, CO and the SW that accepts pesos.
Washington retailers have accepted Canadian currency for years. However I disagree with calling pesos legal tender. If a retailer likes to take it fine.....but to consider it legal tender is wrong.
True
A Canadian $ is worth what the vendor /retailer will accept it for, Pesos fluctuate more and best guess at point of sale may benefit the vendor or the buyer... a deal is a deal
Commerce should be regulated by those that engage in it.
TT
Those stores made the “announcement” about taking pesos for publicity, knowing it would get national coverage. The exchange rate is likely a rip-off.
When I lived in upstate NY, I, and most folks, didn’t like getting Canadian money because unlike pesos it could be confused for American money, and at the time it was worth about 20% less.
What the newscasters and others don’t understand is that people are upset about the pesos because of all the other crap going on, and so people feel insecure and defensive. If the law was upheld and the borders secure I doubt anyone would care about who accepted pesos.
I wouldn’t have a problem with it except for the fact that Mexicans are invading this country by the millions and taking as much from us as they can illegally.
Canadians are not coming over the border illegally by the millions. They come over legally to visit or work or for reasons other than to live ilegally and suck off the system.
We already make it easy enough for them why should we make it easier?
I wouldn’t think of trying to buy something in Europe with Mexican pesos. Of course, since I don’t have any pesos, it has never been a temptation.
I did not answer my own question. I did not say we cannot stop them rather that we should not be making it easier.
My point is that we should not be making it easier as they are not just “visiting” like the Canadians or other tourists are they are here illegaly taking as much as they can and with their birth rate of anchor babies becoming a voting block that will eventualy overtake us.
Should we be making it easier for us to lose to illegals?
You are wrong about their government not allowing them to leave. We are fast becoming the safety valve for their failed society. The Mexican gov encourages their leaving and sending back tens of billions of dollars. It is their second largest source of income after oil.
I’m surprised it took this long. Many merchants in Montana along I-15 from Alberta accept Canadian dollars. Casinos especially.
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