More importantly, how is this remotely enforceable? If I offer to sell my neighbor my used lawnmower for $20 because I got a new one and he doesn't narc on me then who's to know?
The same way you're responsible for paying sales tax on that lawnmower, which no one does. (Assuming you don't live in a non-sales-tax state.)
This then becomes an excuse law, to harass whoever you want to get in trouble, or to hold over the head of businesses that don't care to enrich the credit card agencies (because, realistically, who's using checks much these days?).
Not only is this unenforceable, it's illegal. Read any piece of US currency. Right there it says that cash is legal tender for all transactions public and private. "All" means all.
Er ... grey area there. First, it's not legal tender for "all transactions", but for "all debts", IIRC. A chain of furniture stores did away with cash transactions several years ago (to cut down on robberies) -- the legal/rationalization trick is this: if I offer something for sale, your paying for it before I hand it over is not payment of a debt.
OTOH, that same trick suggests a workaround here: have the vendors sell stuff for an IOU, then pay the IOU with "legal tender for at debts" cash!
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Date: 2011-10-21 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-21 06:17 pm (UTC)Wow, that's the worst thought out bill /ever/.
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Date: 2011-10-21 06:24 pm (UTC)Wonder if it bans garage sales, too?
-- A :/
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Date: 2011-10-21 06:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-21 06:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-21 06:41 pm (UTC)This then becomes an excuse law, to harass whoever you want to get in trouble, or to hold over the head of businesses that don't care to enrich the credit card agencies (because, realistically, who's using checks much these days?).
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Date: 2011-10-21 06:50 pm (UTC)Did he a word?
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Date: 2011-10-22 12:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-21 08:30 pm (UTC)States have no right to usurp that.
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Date: 2011-10-21 11:53 pm (UTC)OTOH, that same trick suggests a workaround here: have the vendors sell stuff for an IOU, then pay the IOU with "legal tender for at debts" cash!
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Date: 2011-10-21 08:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-21 09:54 pm (UTC)In practice... yeah. No.
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Date: 2011-10-22 01:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-21 09:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-21 09:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-21 11:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-10-22 01:17 am (UTC)