It also sounds like a way to wipe out more poor people, or get them into
those profitable prisons. The underground economy of second hand goods
grows as mainstream economy tanks. Tracking people dodging financial
obligations to credit card/banks or other collectors, or nailing those
with meager disposable assets who may be in receipt of social services,
designed to get easier and more rewarding in terms of numbers caught
around the dates that the rent is due. This law will mostly fail, like
Florida's idiotic efforts to find welfare fraud. It will only serve to
push the underground economy further under.
Apart from the continuing war against the poor, this smacks of
conditioning towards isolationist internal economy. The fact that it
happened in the state still reeling from Katrina is particularly
loathsome, like going back to chopping off hands for stealing bread.
Natalia
On 10/21/2011 8:38 AM, D and N wrote:
Surely that has to be illegal. Not allowing "coin of the realm" for
purchase of anything one wants to buy? Although I understand this is a
way to capitalize on the tracking of purchases for the purpose of
taxation, but it sounds more like a banking scam to create the debit
card revenue stream.
Darryl
On 10/20/2011 9:35 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
http://www.klfy.com/story/15717759/second-hand-dealer-law
"Cold hard cash. It's good everywhere you go, right? You can use
it to
pay for anything. But that's not the case here in Louisiana now.
It's
a law that was passed during this year's busy legislative session.
House bill 195 basically says those who buy and sell second hand
goods
cannot use cash to make those transactions, and it flew so far under
the radar most businesses don't even know about it."
- Mike
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