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2025-07-24 Home Front: Politix

Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., introduced bill to require in-person businesses to accept cash payments from customers.

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-07-24 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [195 views ] Top

#1 Cash notes and coins are too much fucking trouble. Keeping a cash box is stupid in this day and age.
in China they already quit using them years ago and they're doing fine. It eliminated counterfeiting, pickpockets and beggars at the same time.
All of these societal ills depend on paper money and coins.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-24 02:44|| 2025-07-24 02:44|| Front Page Top

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On the flip side, if DC does not get its act together and cease deficit spending and address paying down the nation debt.

Remember how Venezuela used Wheelbarrows

Posted by NN2N1 2025-07-24 05:52|| 2025-07-24 05:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Germans have already figured it out and are returning to cash. Blackouts, brownouts, and natural disasters (not to exclude drunks taking out powerlines) kill any means of transactions. Those transformers you see on poles are not stocked very deep and a good size disaster will spell weeks of no electricity. Best to have a couple hundred in small bills tucked away in the house in case of emergencies. Merchants can enlist old people who can actually do math to transcribe transactions.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-24 07:29|| 2025-07-24 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I try to keep enough cash on hand for the next trip to the grocery store as a matter of principle. Power outages due to interesting weather tend not to be county-wide, so as long as we can drive there, we can get something to eat for the duration.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-24 10:04|| 2025-07-24 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ And keep a quarter to a third tank full of gas in the car. Stations can't fuel you up in an outage

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-24 10:21|| 2025-07-24 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 And for EVs, a long term power outage would be eve worse.

Posted by Rambler 2025-07-24 10:41|| 2025-07-24 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Please leather Cadillacs, don't let me down.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-24 11:41|| 2025-07-24 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Based. I just looked at my dollar - it still says this note is legal tender for all debts public and private.

I read an article by a Gen Z Mother the other day who had concerns that her 'adult' daughter who was leaving for college was too immature and or lazy to carry a house key. I had a house key and lunch money by time I was eight.

An observation that I noticed is that some of the younger gens simply cannot count cash. They are horrible at it. It looks so challenging for half of them I want to count it myself.

Posted by mossomo 2025-07-24 13:56|| 2025-07-24 13:56|| Front Page Top

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