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Denmark moves closer to a cashless society
The independent | 07 May 2015 | Doug Bolton

Posted on 05/21/2015 9:10:36 AM PDT by HammerT

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cash; liberty; radicalleft
A ‘cashless’ society would have you under complete surveillance whenever you buy or sell something.

It’s not that much of a leap to the government Controlling what you buy or sell, or even the amount of money you have in the bank.

Let’s see Mrs. Jones.. you want to buy more food than your allotment … or gee Mr. Smith the government has declined your transaction to buy that ammo.. to bad… sucks to be you..

Your money will simply be numbers on a ‘ledger’ that can manipulated at will by the powers that be to do whatever they want.

But hey, it’s not like people ever having to worry about the government doing that, right?

1 posted on 05/21/2015 9:10:36 AM PDT by HammerT
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To: HammerT

Cash is a positive representation of wealth. Mere possession of a currency unit warrants exchange of value.

Cashless is a negative representation of wealth - to wit: debt. Every “possession” of a currency unit MUST be tracked & documented as value owed to someone; exchanging value is changing who owes who what, a data chain accounting for all ownership of every bit of currency.


2 posted on 05/21/2015 9:17:33 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
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To: HammerT

So is Greece, Haiti is already there. {snicker}


3 posted on 05/21/2015 9:19:14 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: HammerT

It won’t happen right away. Laws banning cash will be sold to the public as fighting terrorism and drug-smuggling. Banks will of course be on-board, as part of our crony-capitalist Federal Reserve system, they play along for their seat at the table. they will sell it as convenience and safety.

Then after that comes the IRS, EPA, FDA, etc... with rules indicating when, where and what individuals and businesses may make transactions.


4 posted on 05/21/2015 9:20:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: HammerT

The main reason is that banks want to be charge negative rates (charge you money for keeping it in the bank). The reason they are having trouble is that one can move the cash out. Thus restrictions in cash withdrawals.. etc.

So it is all a matter of greed.
Don’t fall for this BS.


5 posted on 05/21/2015 9:23:48 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: PGR88

The Euro was sold that way, too.


6 posted on 05/21/2015 9:24:14 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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This thread has a story and a link to it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3292172/posts


7 posted on 05/21/2015 9:27:25 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Make A Donation To Free Republic Today)
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To: HammerT

I’ve been anticipating this for decades. Governments can barely wait, because it finally gives them total control at the finest possible level over everyone and everything. The advantages to the banks of course are equally obvious: they become indispensable crossroads for total economic control.

Oh,and remember, when cash is outlawed, only outlaws will have cash. Thus, in my fantasies, I’ve always pictured the new outlaw cash as being small-denomination gold coins minted in the Caribbean and that they would have the images of famous Mafia heads on their obverses: the higher the denomination, the more important and powerful the historical Mafia head. (I haven’t figured out whether Don Corleone or Tony Soprano would count since they’re fictional, and besides, Tony was head of the lowly New Jersey mob anyway, so he’d be lucky to make it on the dime.)

At any rate, I’ve wondered whether bartering would be outlawed too, you know, as part of the all-digital-money plutocracy. If so, then we digital peasants wouldn’t even be allowed to engage in practices such as chicken trading, practices utilized by our less-than-digital ancestor peasants from time immemorial.


8 posted on 05/21/2015 9:37:33 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ctdonath2

Exactly – you literally have the ‘power of the purse’ now.. if the government controls things, they will have that control.. and thus control of you.


9 posted on 05/21/2015 9:39:54 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: Toughluck_freeper

Please note that we are being sold this bill of goods much like ‘Net neutrality’ – fooling people in to buying into tyranny as it being somehow to their benefit.


10 posted on 05/21/2015 9:43:05 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Thanks - My rationale is that the more stories on this liberty stealing idea there are the better.

It’s a pity that some people cannot comprehend the danger of this kind of move.


11 posted on 05/21/2015 9:46:48 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: catnipman

I’ve been anticipating this for decades. Governments can barely wait, because it finally gives them total control at the finest possible level over everyone and everything. The advantages to the banks of course are equally obvious: they become indispensable crossroads for total economic control.

Well worth repeating.

For if all you have are simply numbers on an account the Government can easily decide that you have too much and transfer some to them or someone else on a whim.

And since they decide which transactions will be approved by them, you would have no recourse in the matter.

12 posted on 05/21/2015 9:51:34 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: HammerT

Does that mean people will have to write more czechs?


13 posted on 05/21/2015 10:03:06 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: HammerT

Were going to have to have a cashless society as prices increase. How on Earth are you going to be able to grocery shop for a million dollars total price? It will be impossible as the numbers get to big and the money to thick to carry around. It will happen by necessity and not because we want or don’t want it to happen.


14 posted on 05/21/2015 10:29:15 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: chajin

Only in Prague in the spring.


15 posted on 05/21/2015 11:15:06 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: napscoordinator

They can just do like they did Wiemar Germany or Zimbabwe - print very high denomination notes.


16 posted on 05/21/2015 11:16:25 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: PGR88
Laws banning cash will be sold to the public as fighting terrorism and drug-smuggling.

And the suckers who bought civil asset forfeiture and no-knock raids by militarized police on the same basis will probably fall for it again.

17 posted on 05/21/2015 12:11:23 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: HammerT
That's because they have a real kroner comprehension problem.



18 posted on 05/21/2015 2:16:10 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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