We are obviously carrying more around in our wallets than we think
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Not when its checks and a debit card....lol. Who SEES cash anymore?!!
Who sees cash?
Probably a third of the people in this country.
The most vulnerable of our society uses cash exclusively, including, but not limited to the very poor who can't afford checks and a debit card,
the homeless,
our young children putting money in the collection plate in church every Sunday, the people counting it,
most of our teenagers,
illegal aliens, the drug subculture, underground workers who get paid in cash but don't pay taxes,
and how about the NON-poor who get cash at the ATM machine to pay the pizza delivery person or buy a sheet of stamps at the post office?
Then there are tips to the bellhop who carries our luggage, the limousine or taxi driver, the red cap at the airport, the maitre d', the wine sommelier, usually done in cash.
People working in banks and stores handle cash every day.