Posted on 01/25/2015 9:05:00 AM PST by Scooter100
The current rumblings about a "cashless" society are troubling. Currently, I like the anonymity of cash and I typically pay cash for all items under about $200....books, magazines, pharmacy, liquor store, groceries, tips, etc.
What will YOU miss if we lose our traditional currency? (I'll start the ball rolling...)
- How do I pay the neighbor's kid for mowing my lawn?
How will all the illegals get paid?
How many neighbor’s kids still mow lawns???
- Tickets from a scalper for a sports event.
I will not participate in a cashless society. There will always be a currency of privacy in a free society. When you have no economic privacy then you are no longer free.
Buying something at a garage sale or flea market
We will lose all anonymity. If we are cashless and everything is on a credit card or debit card transaction somewhere, it will be possible for marketers and government to compile very detailed dossiers on how you spend your money.
Ability to buy prepper stuff off the radar?
Without the ability to use cash, there will be ZERO anonimity with our personal lives. Over time, virtually everything about us can be tracked by someone.
The big .gov people on both sides of the aisle will just LOVE it. The ability to track everyone, and tax the hell out of us at the same time. THIS should be worth taking to the streets over. Of course, they’ll find ways of doing it little by little, so the frogs won’t know they’re being ‘boiled’....
Kids’ lemonade stands (but many cities are legislating them out of business anyway)
I just recalled a Candid Camera type show where a kid had a lemonade stand but would only take charge cards. It was hilarious.
scanning payments through your phone.
Pesos.
Cash doesn't exist because governments create it.
It exists because people like to use it.
Government can no more command a "cashless" society than it can command a "teetotaler" society.
We will be subjected to punishment for buying things which liberals disapprove of. Such as guns, gun supplies, and cigarettes. We will be subjected to obamacare penalties for these things as they affect our health. We could be penalized for too many trips through the fast food drive through as that touches on our health. Liberals in government will not be able to resist micro.managing our lives when they have all this information.
How do you put some cash in a birthday card? Or on a wedding or anniversary money tree gift? How would you save your change? Change is about the only way I have a savings account. Its ridiculous that people will take what they perceive as the easy way without realizing the dangers of it. The mysterious “they” wipes out your accounts, you prove you have an account when there are no records, since not only are the young going cashless, they are not keeping records, instead trusting the internet and those who have monitor their virtual funds.
“I will not participate in a cashless society. There will always be a currency of privacy in a free society. When you have no economic privacy then you are no longer free.”
Agree 150% (using White House math here).
In fact, I’m doing more and more cash transactions. When you go cashless, you may as well hand over your life’s story to the gubmit.
And this does not bode well when CW-II starts.
And methinks that start is not far off.
the Swiss Franc, has a 1000 note. (over a thousand $)
the Euro has a 500. (almost $600)
seems good enough for me
Cashless is an invasion of privacy.
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