Posted on 09/25/2014 5:06:50 AM PDT by MikeinMotley
Its white. Its square. And at 1-by-1 inch in diameter, it is the perfect accoutrement to any entrepreneurs smartphone.
With its quick swipe capability and ultimate portability, the high-tech Square Reader credit-card processor has become an invaluable tool in todays economy.
How high-tech credit card vendors and customers get their Second Amendment rights infringed.
Taxi drivers use itas do trade-show vendors, online retailers and home contractors.
It is, as the companys slogan says, a small credit card reader that offers big possibilities. But some of those big possibilities are apparently being foreclosed by the Obama administration.
Last summer, around the same time the U.S. Department of Justices Operation Choke Point began pressuring banks to drop customers who buy or sell firearms, tobacco and other goods considered not acceptable by the Obama administration, Square quietly changed its terms of agreement.
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What with Walmart offering checking accounts etc, I can see them solving this problem with guns and accepting money.
When Walmart offers ALL these services ‘they’ - the ones that have been sticking it to us for years by buying up all the small banks that have some personality and incorporating them into some ‘Giant McBank’ - will try and force Walmart to cease and desist.
Just hope Walmart has the wherewithal to ‘fight them’.
Of course it is perfectly ‘ok’ for a liquor store to issue a debit card and allow the govt to deposit your SS or Unemployment check in their ‘controlled’ environment.
Shop was in Culpeper VA that offered SS types to get their money ‘early’ .... I mused that just meant the person would be ‘broke’ a couple days earlier than usual if he was getting his money a couple of days early.
Course Gov ‘money’ is one of the few that if you die the day before your check is due YOU DON’T GET IT (well yea, but you know what I mean?).... You have to live till the day it is issued, they are ‘holding back nothing(???)’.
Yet, logically, preventing the acquisition of arms is an infringement on the right to keep and bear arms. Weasel words, indeed.
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