Apparently, the US dollar is not legal tender in LA anymore

Cash is not legal tender in LA anymore?

Yeah... ummm... Louisiana is still in the United States, right?

Louisiana = Jackwagon

LA = Lower Alabama

It is the least state-like state. They have their own system of laws there, both formal and informal.

they may have themselves a bit of a fight in federal court... since all us currency says ( right on the front of the bill) that it is " legal tender for all debts, public, and private " ...

This will be ignored like most other laws in Louisiana. Seriously, used goods have to be paid for with a check or credit card, is anyone going to give a hooker a check?

In reply to pilotbraden:

It's not whether I would give a check to a hooker, but whether she will accept it. How many forms of ID would she require? Out of state? Third party...wait, that costs extra anyway.

I think I see a trip through federal courts in this legislations future.

wbjones wrote: they may have themselves a bit of a fight in federal court... since all us currency says ( right on the front of the bill) that it is " legal tender for all debts, public, and private " ...

The grumbling clerk at Sam's Club learned that lesson when she refused to take almost $400 in ones from me while I was buying snack bar provisions.

I understand why they did it...but I don't think they understood the magnitude of what they were doing.

Hardy says the bill is targeted at criminals who steal anything from copper to televisions, and sell them for a quick buck. Having a paper trail will make it easier for law enforcement.

is what I read is what was being said everywhere after the katrina "victims" where displaced and crime rates jumped... "LA people are all criminals and shouldn't be trusted"

State Rep Rickey Hardy:
"They give a check or a cashiers money order, or a electronics. One of doe's three mechanisms is used..."
How do people who are so clearly uneducated get elected to make laws that govern the public? Seriously, I can't understand it (this coming from a former Detroiter that saw Kwame Kilpatric get re-elected).

Apparently they have their own rules of grammar there too.

Guidry says, "I think everyone in this business once they find out about it. They're will definitely be a lot of uproar."

Needs moar uproar!

Let's see. Beauregard walks in my shop with 10 crisp $100 dollar bills and I'm supposed to tell him I only take a check. Yeah, right.

What are they trying to do, be more screwed up than California.

pilotbraden wrote: This will be ignored like most other laws in Louisiana. Seriously, used goods have to be paid for with a check or credit card, is anyone going to give a hooker a check?

If the hooker has a droid phone and the SQUARE app and dongle you can pay her with VISA.

In reply to ThePhranc:

I don't think I want a hooker with a dongle.

I am in Louisiana. I suspect a protest rummage sale is in order. I'm not sure if people would be more outraged if the law was followed than if it wasn't.

This can only lead to more under the table deals and less taxable income to declare.

ransom wrote: In reply to ThePhranc: I don't think I want a hooker with a dongle.

I lawl'd.

Guess the have to back to the barter system, right?

"I will trade you this greenish piece of cloth-like paper for your ....."

Seriously, there goes c-list, 'cause I'm not taking a check from anyone on there for anything. Of course I could print me out some nice official-looking fake money orders and finally get that ......

There is no federal law mandating you must accept cash. That's been fought, and lost, quite a few times over the years. Nothing to prohibit a business from refusing to accept your $100, or saying paypal only.

The intent is semi-noble, an attempt to curb cashing in on stolen good and scrap. Laughable that the law apparently exempts the primary fences of stolen goods, pawn shops and scrap yards.

Wonder if they really didn't think of yard sales and the classifieds.

foxtrapper wrote: There is no federal law mandating you must accept cash. That's been fought, and lost, quite a few times over the years. Nothing to prohibit a business from refusing to accept your $100, or saying paypal only.

That is the freedom of the seller not to sell to you - this is the state government dictating that US legal tender cannot be used as legal tender in certain situations. I'd imagine the first prosecution of it upon a respectable business goes to the supreme court.

I also wonder if while penning this law that they even gave consideration to the fact that the only transaction that does not cost something is one done in cash - everything else must pay fees to a 3rd party in some way or another. That paper trail is someone elses business expense.

This is just poorly thought out asshattery.

I thought this was to to prevent a beatdown at McDonald's.

States and the feds have long dicated that cash cannot be used in certain situations.

I do not disagree with your assesement of the law though.