John Fetterman says stores still need to accept cash. Despite what government agencies and ginormous banks might want . . .

Photo above - I want to pay cash. Will that be a problem? It's the best I can do. I don't have a Visa card . . .

Are you “unbanked”? The term refers to anyone who doesn’t have either a credit or debit card. Probably because they bounced some checks in the past. Or they might have a rock-bottom FICO score. Or possibly an all-cash income. I see cash transactions at Costco all the time. Like Juan and Maria buying mega pallets of stuff for their restaurant.

So people without bank cards aren’t necessarily bad people. They just have challenging (or no) jobs, and might feel flummoxed by long division. John Fetterman (democrat senator from Pennsylvania who might be struggling with higher math after his stroke) has our backs. Senator Fetterman has sponsored a bill which would require brick and mortar stores to keep accepting dollar bills, nickels, dimes and quarters (see link below).

You’d think this would be a no-brainer. Why would anyone want to shut the door on all those shoppers who prefer to use cash? Fear of armed robbery, or counterfeit bills? In 2020, some smart alecks claimed going cashless would halt the spread of Covid 19.

But it says right on each dollar bill that this is legal tender, for all transactions, public and private, unlike Bitcoin. TrumpCoin, and Foxwoods Casino poker chips. The real payoff to replacing cash with bank card transactions is that those electronic records are easier to analyze by banks and government agencies than a cash deposit.

Someone asked “Snopes” if American stores are required to accept dollar bills. Snopes says “nope”. But their reasoning is specious, and Snopes has difficulty dancing around the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, which is discussed at length in their link below. And “I read it somewhere in the internet” may once again be a bogus excuse when violating the law. Especially when it comes to cash register operations.

Irrespective what some for-profit website believes, John Fetterman wants to protect the rights of ordinary people. The right to not have their transactions accumulated in corporate and bank databases, uploaded to the US government, and analyzed by quantum AI computers. Which then trigger an investigation into your financial life. Some people believe that such warrantless searches could be another erosion of our privacy rights. Our health records are usually private. So are our votes. Why shouldn’t our Jarritos sodas and burner phone purchases at the bodega be private too?

I’m just sayin’ . . .

John Fetterman introduces bill to block businesses from going cashless

Must All U.S. Businesses Accept Legal Tender as Payment? | Snopes.com

Charity · 61-69

As of now we haven't become a cashless society but it's in the making. Even Laundromat and car washes are becoming so you need a cash card to operate their machinery. Most do you have to buy the cash cards online, there are still a handful where you can purchase cash cards from a machine in-store.

You go to many stores and most of the self-pay registers are for card only, and only one or two cash.

Slowly changing then one day it will be mandate.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@Charity on the other hand, most states restrict medical marijuana dispensaries from accepting credit cards. it's a cash only business.

Charity · 61-69

@SusanInFlorida I don't know anything about marijuana dispensaries, if it's so, it'll change. But now it's probably as so because there is such a thing as Dr patient privilege. And using credit or debit cards would give away the identities of people using the dispensaries.