Posted on 05/07/2019 6:50:05 PM PDT by dynachrome
San Francisco officials voted Tuesday to require brick-and-mortar retailers to take cash as payment, joining Philadelphia and New Jersey in banning a growing paperless practice that critics say discriminates against low-income people who may not have access to credit cards.
The vote by the Board of Supervisors was unanimous.
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The elites won’t be able to go cashless....The poor doncha know..They only do cash
You mean your Taxpayer Identification Number?
“Low-income people who may not have access to credit cards.”
I thought people got to be poor by having too many credits cards.
Is that what they call it now? LOL
“Interesting. I’ve never come across a cash only store.”
Well, I know personally of a very good restaurant in Monterey, CA that accepts only cash. In fact, they have actually put in an ATM so people can get ready cash to pay their tab from their credit cards. I guess for them the marginal charges they incur from taking credit cards are an unacceptable expense.
On the flip side, we no longer EVER dine in San Francisco, since restaurants there were “mandated by the government” to levy a separate charge on your bill for “employee healthcare!” On their road to running out of other people’s’ money, they have come up with some draconian ways to get your money.
Strangest post I’ve read today. If there was a point you were trying to make, I completely missed it.
About the only purchase where I use a debit card is for gasoline to avoid having to walk to the store and stand in a slow moving line dominated by lottery ticket purchasers and winners getting their winnings.
It’s a shame we’re forced to use a card for online purchases.
90%+ of my purchases are done with cash.
San Fran [Poop loving] Rats don’t realize that they could more easily control everybody without Ca$h?
Watch for a spike in armed robbery.
There are a number of cashless businesses here in Houston. They are typically small businesses who do it primarily to deter robberies, burglaries, and employee theft. They also do it because handling, counting, and banking cash is an expensive nuisance, particularly when most of your customers primarily pay with plastic anyway.
Those businesses should be allowed to use their own business judgment and make their own decisions, and not have it forced on them by the government.
From the IRS website.
Typically the only time the IRS issues TINs is to aliens with Green Cards.
“Why would I swipe my card and notify Uncle Sam / Big Brother where I go, what I buy etc?”
Exactly. Why waste the effort? They know where you go and what you buy etc without you swiping a card.
The 1965 Coinage acts says ...
“United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.”
And the definition of legal tender is “coins or banknotes that must be accepted if offered in payment of a debt.”
But, as you say, it is a lie. This place has really gone to hell in the last 60 years. lOL
We have to keep cash.
Do not let them do away with cash.
Without ‘cash’, there will be nothing ‘common’. We, as a society, must have a conveyable common asset that is acceptable for ALL commerce (CASH).
Otherwise, a retailer could easily change payment requirements daily. Perhaps cash one day and used tires the next.
BeGood/Ross
Good. Laws like this are a necessary evil given the reality we live in where bad people have some very dark desires for the future.
“You mean your Taxpayer Identification Number?”
NO! your Social Security Card says the number on it isn’t to be used for identification. The problem is that that boat sailed decades ago. It’s so bad now that Medicare had to issue new cards with a new number that ISN’T your SS number. But virtually every account I have utilizes my SS number as at least a component of my means of identification, and that should never have been allowed to happen.
Many stores in my area of AR do not take credit cards. Too expensive.
It says right on the money “good for all debts, public and private,” or words to that effect.
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