Neeum Zawan wrote:
>     Now of course, that doesn't mean private stores are legally bound to 
> accept cash to preserve those rights.

In the USA, you're legally required to accept cash (as in, federal reserve 
notes) for debts. If I owe you the money, you have to take cash. But if I 
don't *already* owe you the money, you don't have to take cash.

E.g., if I walk into your restaurant, before I eat I don't owe you anything, 
so you're free to tell me that you don't take cash.

If I'm behind on my rent or owe you for my phone bill, you have to take 
cash. If you refuse my cash, then I no longer owe you that money.

>     Elections don't quite fix that. Just because I elected certain 
> "good" people doesn't mean the system will change for the better. The 
> president can't just change everything if he wants to.

Plus, the USA's legal system isn't like europe. We don't have a parliment 
where it makes sense to run a few people on one specific platform like the 
Pirate Party. You have to pick someone who has a whole mix of views (about 
which they are likely lying), and hope they agree with you more than they 
disagree, even if they get elected. That's why the hot issues like abortion 
are *such* hot issues. They're very polarizing if someone whips up a big 
crowd of people to have an opinion stronger on that than anything else.

>     Over here, though, the concept won't work. A law like that would be 
> very unpopular. 

And probably unconstitutional. The same laws that say "you're allowed to get 
together to complain to the government" have been applied to say "you're not 
allowed to refuse to rent one apartment to two unrelated families" (like, 
kids in college sharing a house).

>     And BTW, over here if you live in city A and work in city B, your 
> city taxes go to A, and not B. So that may somewhat take care of the 
> problem.

Heh.  Actually, it's more like if city A has a 10% tax and city B has a 7% 
tax, they tax you at 10%, give 7% to B and 3% to A.  In other words, *both* 
places tax you, but they're nice and let you write off your taxes from one 
place on the taxes from another place.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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