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Backlash building to cashless movement
Washington Post ^ | July 9, 2018 | Fenit Nirappil

Posted on 07/10/2018 9:29:06 AM PDT by C19fan

Aaron Bateman pulled out a few $20 bills to pay for a taco lunch in the nation's capital. To his surprise, his money was no good in the city where money is printed.

Surfside, a popular 24-hour Mexican eatery, doesn't take cash. No cash means no register for robbers to empty out, no bills for workers to slip into their pockets and no change counting holding up lines.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: cash; cashless
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To: C19fan

Cashless? Oh hell no. I REFUSE to surrender total power and oversight over my money and what I spend it on to the government or hackers or anybody else. It’s none of their damn business if I want to buy some things that cannot be tracked and I can’t be cut off from access to my money with s keystroke.


61 posted on 07/10/2018 11:34:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: C19fan
NO. WILL NOT COMPLY.

If they take my cash, I will still have pre-1964 silver.

62 posted on 07/10/2018 11:34:54 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Chase was a corrupt scumbag.


63 posted on 07/10/2018 11:35:27 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: KrisKrinkle

Yes they have.....and I had the immense satisfaction of closing my account with Bsnk of America just this past Saturday as a result....AND telling them exactly why I as a 10+ year customer would no longer do business with them AND that I would tell everybody I knew not to do business with Bank of America.

They didn’t look too happy when I told them that “rolling over for New York politicians has costs” as I got up and left.


64 posted on 07/10/2018 11:43:50 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: C19fan

Cash should be always be available:
Cash is valuable after the hurricane or tornado hits and the power is down for weeks or months.
Want to eat and feed your family? Hand over all your guns and we will turn your credit card on again.


65 posted on 07/10/2018 12:07:22 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowboy)
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To: itsahoot

As I alluded to before, the technological capability may be there, but technology has limitations and vulnerabilities such as electric grid failure, local power outages, natural disasters, etc. What about the EMP explosive vulnerability we have all heard about? What about hackers taking the system down? Sure, it’s doable on one level, but the reality is that it places the populace at great risk when things don’t go quite as planned, and there are plenty of ways for it to go bad and hurt a whole lot of people.

The Smart play is not to roll over and accept it, but to resist the lunacy. . . and believe me, it is totalitarian lunacy.


66 posted on 07/10/2018 12:11:28 PM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: TexasGunLover
Transaction times tied to cameras, behaviors, cell phone locations (all known), are easily correlated. The data is there, and once they want to know, they know.

And the scary part is that they can at any time decide to apply an anal probe to your life and look at everywhere you've been for the past year or possibly more, and yet the supreme court came one vote short just this year of saying that this is a-ok even without a warrant. The feckless liberals on the court saved our bacon on that one. Made me sick to have to agree with them, and disagree with Thomas.

67 posted on 07/10/2018 12:11:52 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: C19fan

Cashless society is a society waiting for a tyrant to take over and and enforce his tyranny by simply flipping the switch on your credit card.
It will be used to coerce people into actions which are antithetical to freedom.


68 posted on 07/10/2018 12:12:55 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowboy)
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To: MeganC
That’s illegal...just like most of their kitchen staff.

Exactly. My first question in such an instance would be, "then how do you pay all the illegal aliens you have working for you?"

69 posted on 07/10/2018 12:13:31 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: Biggirl
What I see coming is organizations like community groups setting money related services like credit unions

Black markets funded with items not money. Sadly by then they will be able to watch everyone. Chinese claim to have recognition software that can identify anyone anywhere. We shall see I guess.

I am not promoting any of this stuff just what I see coming, not in my lifetime but come it will.

70 posted on 07/10/2018 1:21:58 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: RatRipper; Biggirl
As I alluded to before, the technological capability may be there, but technology has limitations and vulnerabilities such as electric grid failure

All the problems you foresee will not matter in the end, cash will disappear, because it has to.

71 posted on 07/10/2018 1:22:26 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: OldMissileer
Quite a few years ago a national chain that sells women’s clothing in malls announced they were going cashless topless.

I'm sorry, I read that wrong.

72 posted on 07/10/2018 1:31:42 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: buffaloguy
"Cashless society is a society waiting for a tyrant to take over and and enforce his tyranny by simply flipping the switch on your credit card."

When cash goes, freedom is already gone. If the govt removes their currency from circulation I'll provide my own.

Tater's Freehold and Trading Post

Copper, silver and gold gladly accepted in trade.

No credit - so don't ask.

Free Beer Tomorrow.

73 posted on 07/10/2018 2:21:39 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: C19fan
This will only work in restaurants where you pay first. Otherwise they have to take cash or you are not obliged to pay. That's why it's called "legal tender".
74 posted on 07/10/2018 2:55:52 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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