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.
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.
Then the clerks can learn basic addition and subtraction by experience, which they clearly never learned in public indoctrination centers mislabeled as schools.