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after a session and she gave me back a $500 bill for change. Damn, she ripped me off.

would somebody think a neighborhood super market could change a $1,000,000 bill?

When the government needs to print million dollar bills.

If they did print $1 million bills, it would be ok because the govt spends 1000 of them per day more than they take in.   Just a thought.

Cash will be totally electronic.  That does bother me a little.  I remember that in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev if you actually spoke out, they didn't put you in prison, they invalidated your ration card. So you were rendered destitute on the spot.

Cash is a bastion of civil liberty.

Take it away and replace it with government (and the corporations that pander to it) controled freedom in the form of your survival card, and you literally control freedom, life and death.

With cash, on the other hand, it's yours.
Dig a hole and bury it or use it as you will.

Thanks Zin for pointing this out.

I wish that one of the ten amendments to the constituion enshirned the right to have cash.

I think we could use a $500 and $1000 bill now, since $100 doesn't go very far anymore.

Can you imagine what it would do to the hobby among other things? This probably belongs on the P&R board, but I shudder at the thought of Big Brother having the ability to monitor every transaction that a private citizen makes.

Someday, probably in the not too distant future, someone, probably in the name of the war on terror, or the war on drugs, will make such a proposal. I just hope we have the will to resist.

. . . and pay off the national debt-- with change.

but would the Chinese make change?lol

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it's un-American.

I could go back to buying the smaller envelopes if I could use C-notes instead of the double sawbucks you get from the ATM.

Seriously - this is not light stuff... restrict energy use... and it is also the same... there are many many ways to restrict freedom... this is one.

You're not, but I can still hope.

It will probably come down as some type of addendum to the Patriot Act or some other kind of Bull shit.

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