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- From: linley@netcom.com (Bruce James Robrert Linley)
- Subject: Re: Sorry, we don't accept cash... Huh?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.002357.23997@netcom.com>
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, UCLA
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:23:57 GMT
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- In a previous article tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) spake...
- >>because it is not a good idea to send cash through the mail. I would, however,
- >>expect any company (credit card/gas/phone/etc.) to take cash If I paid at
- >>their office in person.
- >
- >What if almost all customers of the company do not use cash? As an extreme
- >example, would you really expect to be able to walk into Boeing and pay
- >cash for a 767? So few of their customers pay cash (none, probably), that
- >they probably do not have a procedure set up to deal with a large amount
- >of cash.
- >
- Extreme, yes; but acceptable. Cars and real-estate have been purchased with
- currency. It's unusual, but it does happen once in a while.
-
- But here's one for all you people (no Perot pun intended) teetering on the
- the word tender and saying that money is debt and can be refused, etc, etc, ad
- nauseum: What is the 'lowest common denominator' form of money (btw, only the
- treasury can print MONEY. Everything else is 'scrip' or 'tokens') that everyone
- can accept and agree on (within the US)? Originally, it was gold and sivler
- (in the raw, or made into coins), and notes backed up by gold and silver.
- and redeemable for metal on demand (They did say this on the bills up to 1964).
- The silver standard ended in 1964 and the gold std. in the mid 1800s (?)
- Note that 1965 was the first year that coins ($.10, $.25, $.50, $1.00) were
- made out of something other than pure silver- the "sandwich" coins. And
- this, I believe, is the source of all the bickering on this thread. Neverthe-
- less, these green bills we pass around, are they not mandated by law to be
- an acceptable method of payment of any debt within the US regardless of what
- actually backs up the paper (gold, silver, debt, goodwill, air, etc.). Anyway,
- I feel that it's necessary to have some physical item that I can hold in my
- hand and say, "This is a basic form of value that everyone (in the US) accepts
- as payment for ANY debt, and must accept, i.e. cannot refuse, regardless of a
- preferred form of payment, or the conveinence or inconveinence of having to
- accept this method of payment." I believe that the US dollar is STILL this
- item. Those who say it is not, please tell me what is, in your opinion.
-
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- Bruce James Robert Linley | "Well, I tried shoving a weiner in the warp drive,
- Comp Sci & Engr, UCLA | but it didn't do a bit o' good."
- <linley@netcom.com> | - Star Dreck, c/o Dr. Demento
- <linley@seas.ucla.edu> |
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