This would not prevent you from using your card if that's your preference. Hope it passes so consumer's have the freedom of choice.
The push for digital dollar has potential for govt oversight of every citizen.

I’m in DC a lot visiting family and just about everything is cashless, except, of course, the tip jar, which accepts only cash!

I believe that it has always been a violation of federal law to refuse to accept cash to pay a bill. As otherwise noted in this thread check your cash bills and note the statement “This note is legal tender for all debts public and private”

Paranoid?

Bingo! :thumbup:

I believe that they are referring to individual consumers not the banks themselves

Cash system started long ago.
Even the Incas and Romans had coins.
Of course, bartering was always an option.

Not exactly. Here is an excerpt from "federalreserve.gov":

"Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment?
There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.

Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," states: "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." This statute means that all U.S. money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor."

Cash is inconvenient but preferable. CC's have their place.

Not paranoid.

Seriously I'm shocked by the people that think we are naive to worry about going cashless. The folks saying it's not a conspiracy to control our money. It literally happened last year in Canada.

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Exactly!! Also look at China.

I love your kind of fishing, but I hate the dam phishing that is happening these days.

That has zero to do with your cashless society conspiracy.

"The regulations define a "designated person" who can be cut off from financial services as someone who is "directly or indirectly" participating in a "public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace," or a person engaging in "serious interference with trade" or "critical infrastructure."

The organizers were using funding to basically shutdown the downtown of a large city. Some of the donations were from residents of foreign countries like Russia and even the US. You can bet that if the same thing happened in the US that the government would have those foreign donations shut down very quickly.

I believe they do it for sanitary reasons - they bake on site, and touch food, and shouldn't have to switch out gloves and wash their hands every few minutes just because someone wants to hand them grubby bills that probably were used as coke straws by some addict 5 years ago and made their way into your wallet.

They only have to press the buttons of their cash register, which you don't get to touch at all and they can therefore keep sanitized.

So how do you rip if there no cash?