Posted on 03/22/2023 4:19:16 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Members of the Arizona House of Representatives on both sides of the political aisle came together to pass a bill aimed at protecting the ability of Arizonans to use cash for retail transactions.
HB 2555 passed with wide bipartisan support, on a 52-8 vote.
The bill requires retail businesses to be willing to accept cash as a form of payment for goods and services with a total value of up to $100.
HB 2555 now moves to the Senate for consideration.
“People rely on using cash for transactions,” said the bill’s sponsor Representative Chaplik. “As of 2021, FDIC data estimates indicate that nearly 5.9 million U.S. households do not have a bank account. This bill is especially helpful to individuals who may be unbanked, live paycheck to paycheck, or are otherwise disenfranchised because they’re unable to make digital payments.
“Cash also acts as a roadblock to those who would have an all-digital currency economy, and that’s a good thing,” added Chaplik. “The fact is that cash is still king, and it’s going to remain that way for a very long time. Arizona will not be going cashless.”
A trip to the grocery store can go over $100 easily. It should be more now.
How about passing a law for paper ballots and another that jails anyone guilty of election, ballot and voter fraud? I’ll bet that 25% of the idiots that took part in this should be behind bars.
This bill is legal tender for all debts...
Stated on US paper money: “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE”. Not good enough?
Most illegal aliens use cash.
Lends new meaning to the term “going green”.
Will unmanned kiosks be required to accept cash too? Everyone loves those dollar bill readers that reject anything not fresh from the Treasury.
Commercial transactions are not debts.
I could offer goods and require to be paid in jelly beans.
The IRS hates cash and that's one reason why I love it.
The government has no right to know every single financial transaction in my life.
A free people does not have to answer to their so called elected officials.
There is no federal law forcing someone to take cash. Many businesses refrain from it in high amounts for security purposes.
Excellent legislative trend in Arizona. Thanks for posting. The plandemic was definitely used to demonize cash for ordinary economic transactions. Many may see this as part of the ebb and flow of modernization, but when businesses start looking down their nose at the use of cash, and do so seemingly unnecessarily (Oh, uh, there’s a coin shortage, donchaknow!), it has the feel of a deliberate Big-Brotherly attack on freedom.
Cash is legal tender for all debts public and private.
So there’s that.
Huh?
“Commercial transactions are not debts.”
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Right. So, up front, tell people, “Cash not accepted.”
This legislation relates to transactions under $100...maybe if they dropped that to $50? What number would suit you?
We’re all illegal aliens now.
H/T (/paraphrase) Panama John.
Not good enough?
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Meaningless soon as the globalists operating in the Deep State get their way and the whole freaking world goes digital! And when it does, what will us peasants be able to do about it? NOTHING!
I could offer goods and require to be paid in jelly beans.
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LOL! Like the way you think!
The government has no right to know every single financial transaction in my life.
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Really? You better rethink that, because here like most everywhere else on the planet the government’s rights are whatever those in power say they are. But the Constitution and Bill of Rights you say? Nullified by the Deep State!
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