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Title: Forcing Cajuns to Go Cashless
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Lew Rockwell
URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/04 ... forcing-cajuns-to-go-cashless/
Published: Apr 14, 2015
Author: Joseph T. Salerno
Post Date: 2015-04-14 07:20:20 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1420
Comments: 9
With the passage of House Bill 195 into law, the State of Louisiana has banned the use of cash in all transactions involving secondhand goods. State representative Ricky Hardy, a co-author of the bill, claims that the bill targets criminals who traffic in stolen goods. According to Hardy, “It’s a mechanism to be used so the police department has something to go on and have a lead.” The bill prohibits cash transactions by “secondhand dealers,” defined to include garage sales, flea markets, resellers of specialty items, and even non-profit resellers like Goodwill. Curiously, it specifically exempts pawnbrokers from the ban. But of course, pawn shops–and not rented stalls at local church flea markets–are notorious as places that criminals frequent to convert stolen goods into quick cash. So what gives? Are the authors of the bill and those who voted for it ignoramuses–or are they deliberately obscuring the real purpose of the bill? The answer is clear once we examine the other provisions of the bill. In fact, the bill goes far beyond banning cash transactions. As lawyer Thad Ackel notes, the bill requires: . . . secondhand dealers to turn over a valuable business asset, namely, their business’ proprietary client information. For every transaction a secondhand dealer must obtain the seller’s personal information such as their name, address, driver’s license number and the license plate number of the vehicle in which the goods were delivered. They must also make a detailed description of the item(s) purchased and submit this with the personal identification information of every transaction to the local policing authorities through electronic daily reports. If a seller cannot or refuses to produce to the secondhand dealer any of the required forms of identification, the secondhand dealer is prohibited from completing the transaction. So the aim of the bill is not to aid law enforcement in apprehending criminals, none of whom would be ever stupid enough to turn over such information. The real intent is to feed government’s insatiable hunger for tax revenues by completely stripping law-abiding citizens of financial privacy in secondhand transactions, every detail of which is fed directly into police files. This troubling development in Louisiana parallels the intensification of the war on cash by the Federal government. Last month it was reported that the U.S. Justice Department ordered bank employees to snitch to the cops on customers who withdrew $5,000 or more. In a speech, assistant attorney general Leslie Caldwell exhorted banks to “alert law enforcement authorities about the problem” so that police can “seize the funds” or at least “initiate an investigation”.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
This seems unlikely to withstand a lawsuit but it may take some time before any challenge is made. It is difficult to ban legal tender, the basis of all currency, altogether. Other forms of payment like checks and debit/credit cards and money orders are mere substitutes for conveying legal tender from a buyer to a seller.
Does it ban Ebay too or just keep that sale sitting on the fence?
Lawsuits? Forget the lawsuits, how are they going to police it? Every yard sale, ever craigs list sale, every me to you private sale? Impossible to police, making it one more slave of the democrat over reach.
I see this as a good thing, since when the bureaucrats go out into the swamps, the Cajuns will use them for gator bait. And they will reduce the number of bureaucrats.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Sure but all those wonderful outcomes never actually happen, no matter how much the libmedia tries to portray flyover country as some vast territory like the film Deliverance.
This is all about revenue income by the state in the form of state income tax,sales taxes,or fines. Besides,people need to know who their Masters are.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Yep. We know how Americans are concerned about their "financial privacy". Well, excluding the 46 million on food stamps.
LOL. Do you know any cajuns? Tell you what sparkey. How about you go out into the swamps, and YOU tell the cajuns the new rules, and how its going to be. Then you come back & tell us how it went. I'll be waiting to hear your story, LOL
Si vis pacem, para bellum
If I were in LA, I wouldn't be hanging around with swamp people.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
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#3. To: TooConservative (#1)
This seems unlikely to withstand a lawsuit but it may take some time before any challenge is made.
#4. To: BobCeleste (#3)
" Forcing Cajuns to Go Cashless "
#5. To: Stoner (#4)
I see this as a good thing, since when the bureaucrats go out into the swamps, the Cajuns will use them for gator bait. And they will reduce the number of bureaucrats.
#6. To: Deckard (#0)
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
"completely stripping law-abiding citizens of financial privacy in secondhand transactions, every detail of which is fed directly into police files."
#8. To: TooConservative (#5)
" Sure but all those wonderful outcomes never actually happen, no matter how much the libmedia tries to portray flyover country as some vast territory like the film Deliverance. "
#9. To: Stoner (#8)
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