Is This Important, Or Is It Really "Just A Test"?

Just heard a "rumor", which someone in Los Angeles or Oakland, California, will be able to verify as soon as June 1, 2012.

It seems that the State will be conducting a "test" at a couple of its tax offices wherein cash will NOT be accepted as a form of payment.

You'll only be allowed to pay your bill using credit/debit cards, checks or money orders.

No more "Legal Tender" greenbacks allowed; at least until the end of the "Test".


So, if you don't have, (or won't use) a credit card, don't have a bank account (no checks or debit card), you'll either have to fork out more money for a cashiers's check, or drive to another city with an office that isn't part of the "test".


Seems a bit unfair to me.


Supposedly it's to increase "safety" (no cash in the office to rob). But that doesn't ring true to me. Afterall, we're talking about a government office, with armed guards on constant patrol; not some quickie-mart or liquor store in the "seedy" part of town.

Now I know, that there have been isolated incidences of retailers going the "No-Cash" route, for similarly stated reasons.

But this is different.

This is the (State) Government saying No Cash Allowed!


Doesn't that give anyone else a cold shiver down the spine?

Doesn't anyone else feel the first disturbingly vertiginous sense of a "Slippery Slope" under their feet?

reply to post by Bhadhidar


Apparently, it's just a test!

LOL!

Awesome thread. Very thought provoking. Hopefully your responses are more stimulating than your original thoughts.

reply to post by beezzer


If it's an eyesight test I think i failed Cant see anything on the OP..

Originally posted by BigBruddah
reply to post by beezzer

 

If it's an eyesight test I think i failed

Cant see anything on the OP..

Okay, now cover your right eye and tell me if you can see anything.

(Obama's healthcare new eye test, trial run on ATS! )

Originally posted by Bhadhidar

It isn't, " really " anything because it is nothing.
Second verse.

Originally posted by randyvs

Originally posted by Bhadhidar

It isn't," really " anything because it is nothing.
Second verse.

edit on 31-5-2012 by randyvs because: (no reason given)

But nothing IS something.

It is the complete lack of anything.

(ow. need asprin)

Mods can u ban this person?

second line.

Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Mods can u ban this person?

second line.

He who shoots last, often shoots the straightest.

Originally posted by Bhadhidar

Doesn't that give anyone else a cold shiver down the spine?

Doesn't anyone else feel the first disturbingly vertiginous sense of a "Slippery Slope" under their feet?

edit on 31-5-2012 by Bhadhidar because: fat finger syndrome

Are you implying that the government is doing this to forestall a run on banks here?

reply to post by beezzer


California is the most populous state in the US.

If this "Test" is "Successful" (they haven't defined the parameters of "success" or failure") it could serve as the basis of the policy being adopted State-wide at all state offices collecting taxes and/or fees.

Once a "No Cash" policy is accepted by the State government, especially in a state as large as California, it is but a short step (or Slip down the Slope) to cash being banned for All transactions.


When your personal wealth is nothing but a series of electronic bits and bytes, it doesn't take much to make you completely penniless.

And completely trackable by your government.

reply to post by Bhadhidar

THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

Sorry, says so on the 20 dollar bill.

I'll be fighting this.

Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Mods can u ban this person?

second line.

Another one failed the test as well..