Perhaps it's a indication of a perception of a growing problem with theft, and fencing of stolen goods. Most jurisdictions have substantial requirements for documentation on pawnshop transactions for this reason, and perhaps this is an inept attempt at one of those. At any rate it would presumably need a certain level of constituency support in order to be politically possible...
-Pete On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
