I hope they win and the government needs to figure out how to handle efficiently like businesses.
Your cash ain’t nothin’ but trash
Your cash ain’t nothin’ but trash
Your cash ain’t nothin’ but trash
And there ain’t no need in your hangin’ around
Suddenly the government is worried about spending 40K?
“This note is legal tender for all debts public and private.”
Seems pretty clear to me.
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Our parks should be free for US citizens.
Portillo’s takes card payment only. First drive-thru I have come across. Guess it’s the coming thing. More control over our money. Trace CC expenses, and more.
Sending an armored car to remote national park is probably very expensive. Where is the nearest bank?
“the park service said that the $22,000 in cash collected by the park during the previous year took more than $40,000 to process. “
Bullshit.
i think i can at least understand their motivation. a bill reader barrier gate would normally require an uninterruptible grid electrical source, which is difficult to transmit to the death valley remote desert location. armored car pickups in a remote desert location may also be very expensive. all such costs could be weighed in consideration of the collected revenue which is not likely to be large. also, a premium entry charge might be prohibited by uniform entry fee considerations. the cost might be labor in various forms. the costs might exceed the revenue collected. OTOH, there are IIRC no alternative routes through death valley, so people without a credit card would be put in what i would consider to be unanticipated potential peril from being refused entry by a machine.
it’s easy to imagine only the nps side being considered at the remote national level, resulting in an incorrect implementation at the local level.
nps seems at times riddled with deadwood. i recall trying to have a discussion with a glacier national park ranger on global warming (but nope, all i got back was cookie cutter arguments with no awareness of any alternaive view). on a hunch, i asked another park ranger if a republican would be considered for an open park ranger position, with the response being nope.
Don’t they have to pay a fee whenever someone uses a card ? That adds up but it’s really about knowing what you do every second of you life
Most places want cash purchases so they don’t have to pay Obiden’s credit card buddies.
Cash is this nations legal tender.
“This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.”
Are our federal parks no longer part of the US?
I do not care what it costs extra. It’s not up to some SES2 dweeb in the government wearing a cheap suit making the decision over what currency this country uses.
Read the front of the bill: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/one-dollar-bill.html
“park service said that the $22,000 in cash collected by the park during the previous year took more than $40,000 to process.”
🤣🤣🤣
This is why we can’t have nice things.
The hypocrisy of these people is stunning. They don’t want to require IDs to vote because they claim it discriminates against people that don’t drive yet require credit cards to go to a national park.
park service said that the $22,000 in cash collected by the park during the previous year took more than $40,000 to process.
For that amount just get damn safe lol
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“all debts, public and private”
You incur the debt upon legal entry.
No entry without cash payment, so no “debt” has been levied.
But . . . Public accomodations are a different animal and cash “payment” must be accepted.
Easy win.
Here’s a shocking proposal: Get rid of the fees. Basically, NPS is admitting that collecting fees is worse financially than allowing free access. So why not free access?
There’s a huge state park near me that uses the honor system, by the way. Drop your money in the hole. And they explicitly state that if you can’t afford it, don’t worry about it.