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Louisiana gone wild - bans using cash

Daylen

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That is not legal. I'm sure the feds would love it, even though in the past our fiat dollars have been protected enough to make such a law illegal. Cash is legal tender good for all debts public and private.
 

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Coming soon to a state near all of us....Welcome to AmeriKa

If I want to sell my CDs, DVDs, albums, or video games, the local shop (WI) has to take a picture of me and submit it to the local cop shop along with a copy of my DL.

Needless to say the local cop shop can **** ** *****.
 
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That is not legal. I'm sure the feds would love it, even though in the past our fiat dollars have been protected enough to make such a law illegal. Cash is legal tender good for all debts public and private.

Bingo. I don't see how they can possibly enforce this law. Cash is still use about 50-60% of the time in the retail enviroments where I have worked. Now Grandma can't use a twenty dollar bill to buy an old vase. The guy who thought this up is an idiot.
 

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All of this discussion... about an article ABOUT a law... anybody gonna post a link to the actual bill to ascertain the truthfulness of the reporting?
 

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If I want to sell my CDs, DVDs, albums, or video games, the local shop (WI) has to take a picture of me and submit it to the local cop shop along with a copy of my DL.

Needless to say the local cop shop can suck my balls.

Craigslist.... May take some time, but I can turn junk into cash. :p
 

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§1864.3. Payment by check or money order required

A secondhand dealer shall not enter into any cash transactions in payment for the purchase of junk or used or secondhand property. Payment shall be made in the form of check, electronic transfers, or money order issued to the seller of the junk or used or secondhand property and made payable to the name and address of the seller. All payments made by check, electronic transfers, or money order shall be reported separately in the daily reports required by R.S. 37:1866.

Acts 2011, No. 389, §1.

Definition of a second hand dealer...
http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp?doc=93498
Important requirement in the definition...
Anyone, other than a nonprofit entity, who buys, sells, trades in, or otherwise acquires or disposes of junk or used or secondhand property more frequently than once per month
 

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Secondhand sales are now done with a line of credit issued by the seller. The line of credit is to be immediately repaid with cash.
 

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(chuckle)

You know, you can take the thread title a different way, too.

It could be read to mean that LA became the first state to officially recognize that Federal Reserve Notes are just hollow paper representations of money and subject to manipulation by the Federal Reserve (the central bank) and the fedgov.

That would be worth going wild about. Celebrate!!
 
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(chuckle)

You know, you can take the thread title a different way, too.

It could be read to mean that LA became the first state to officially recognize that Federal Reserve Notes are just hollow paper representations of money and subject to manipulation by the Federal Reserve (the central bank) and the fedgov.

That would be worth going wild about. Celebrate!!

But instead they want to recognize the even more worthless electronic dollars.
 

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(chuckle)

You know, you can take the thread title a different way, too.

It could be read to mean that LA became the first state to officially recognize that Federal Reserve Notes are just hollow paper representations of money and subject to manipulation by the Federal Reserve (the central bank) and the fedgov.

That would be worth going wild about. Celebrate!!

I love it, well put sir!
 

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That is not legal. I'm sure the feds would love it, even though in the past our fiat dollars have been protected enough to make such a law illegal. Cash is legal tender good for all debts public and private.

Sadly in today's political environment it is only unlawful after a lawsuit has been filed and it has worked it's way through the courts, costing the Petitioner untold fortunes and several years out of their life.

Every legislative body should have an office that screens bills for Constitutionality/Legality before they ever see the light of day.
 

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Sadly in today's political environment it is only unlawful after a lawsuit has been filed and it has worked it's way through the courts, costing the Petitioner untold fortunes and several years out of their life.

Every legislative body should have an office that screens bills for Constitutionality/Legality before they ever see the light of day.

They do have such a thing! Its called the Attorney General! The problem is this position is as suseptible to having people in it that don't like or understand or care about constitutions, federal law and the rest.
 

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Louisiana was trying to control the sale of stolen scrap metal for cash, but missed the bad guy and nuked the village.

Texas did the same thing this year, by eliminating the felony threshold value of aluminum, copper, and brass. Effecting 9/1/11, any theft of those metals in Texas is a felony. Yup -- steal a soda can, a penny, or a brass ring and it's a felony in Texas.
 

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And who is to blame for idiotic laws like this? "WE THE PEOPLE" We elected the legislators who came up with this idiocy, or worse yet, the people who decided not to vote because they think it is not important.
What we have happening in several cities in WI right now is local government positions are becoming "Appointed" positions, with no way for the general public to remove local government figures by election. "Town Clerk" is one of the most common appointed positions, and it is creating problems in my own town. The clerk is dictating with no fear of losing an election because she is thouroughly entrenched there.

Watch out for this tactic in your locale
 

Daylen

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And who is to blame for idiotic laws like this? "WE THE PEOPLE" We elected the legislators who came up with this idiocy, or worse yet, the people who decided not to vote because they think it is not important.
What we have happening in several cities in WI right now is local government positions are becoming "Appointed" positions, with no way for the general public to remove local government figures by election. "Town Clerk" is one of the most common appointed positions, and it is creating problems in my own town. The clerk is dictating with no fear of losing an election because she is thouroughly entrenched there.

Watch out for this tactic in your locale

I've heard of this happening with judges; even worse.
 

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The laws regarding the sell of used goods are absolutely ridicules. How the hell do you intend to price that the DVD I just sold was stolen? Unless there is some sort of identifying mark, like the serial numbers if high dollar equipment, then it is impossible. I do not support such measures for things like DVDs either. I mean honestly, how many of you have written down and stored in a secure coxswain, every single serial number for every single piece of equipment you have?

If anyone claims they do, be prepared for a pop quiz. :p

Posted using my HTC Evo
 

Daylen

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The laws regarding the sell of used goods are absolutely ridicules. How the hell do you intend to price that the DVD I just sold was stolen? Unless there is some sort of identifying mark, like the serial numbers if high dollar equipment, then it is impossible. I do not support such measures for things like DVDs either. I mean honestly, how many of you have written down and stored in a secure coxswain, every single serial number for every single piece of equipment you have?

If anyone claims they do, be prepared for a pop quiz. :p

Posted using my HTC Evo

Would you be asking for the serial numbers of their belongings and expect someone to answer? Might as well ask for credit card numbers.
 
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