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To: delta7

I see card only businesses more and more often. I’m a crusty, old hold out. If a place is card only, I’ll go somewhere else, as long as that’s possible.


2 posted on 07/23/2025 6:49:25 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: brownsfan

I see card only businesses more and more often. I’m a crusty, old hold out. If a place is card only, I’ll go somewhere else, as long as that’s possible.


The potential down side of this is you might have to wait an extra 15 minutes while the kid goes and gets someone to count your change.

I don’t disagree with the premise of the proposed law. But every new law adds a straw to our load. It is a simple straw in itself but with all other regulations it becomes more than we can handle.

Laws don’t fix things, let the marketplace decide, which is what you are doing.

An observation. Most immigrants, legal and otherwise operate with cash. CAsh and barter don’t go away, they are human nature.


5 posted on 07/23/2025 7:00:38 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: brownsfan

I sometimes find the opposite. My barber is cash only. So is a small Italian grinder shop in Scottsdale the I sometimes patronize (good meatball grinders).


9 posted on 07/23/2025 7:03:57 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: brownsfan
If a place is card only, I’ll go somewhere else, as long as that’s possible.

I'm with you.

Unfortunately travel is almost impossible without using a card.

You can't stay at a decent hotel without using a card.

You can't fly without using a card. You can't buy a meal in many airports with cash.

They will tell you that they are trying to weed out employee theft buy making you use cards, but I have my suspicions that it is an attempt to eliminated cash.

15 posted on 07/23/2025 7:18:35 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: brownsfan

When I was in Economics class, way back in the mid-late 1980’s, all our cash said “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private”.

Sure enough, just looked at a $10 bill and it’s still there.


59 posted on 07/23/2025 1:54:31 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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