Against the law in louisiana to use cash for used goods

[efc321]

I guess every one in Louisiana can afford smart phones with virtual wallet or to have a personal credit card/ debit card reader to take in money when you sell personal property. http://www.klfy.com/story/15717759/second-hand-dealer-law  If this comes to my state I am (insert bad word here) New is a word not used very much in my vocabulary.  Most of my personal property is bought used with cash. 

[Bald Brick]

Is it just cash that is prohibited? Then bartering and payment in kind would be OK?

[smileeb]

  What! You can only buy new cars, no more used cars or lots. 

[Wildman]

Might be time to replace the makers of such foolish laws..! 

[nok]

Might be time to replace the makers of such foolish laws..! 

Just remember to use a credit card when you buy a new politician. 

[Crow]

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.

"It's a mechanism to be used so the police department has something to go on and have a lead," explains Hardy.

If the police doesn't know where criminals are selling stole goods they need a new police not new laws.

[jaydot]

that can't be constitutional.

[djohnston]

that can't be constitutional.

No, it isn't. That doesn't stop politicians, bureaucrats, "officials", etc. Most Americans don't know what's in the Constitution, including said politicians, bureaucrats, "officials", etc.

[OMSkates]

How does this affect non profit thrift stores?  Are they to suffer the dire economic consequences of such a foolish law?   

[Village Idiot]

People just stealing stuff will be the only way to solve the problem.

[kjpetrie]

I'm not a US citizen, but the last time I saw a ten dollar bill it bore the words "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private" so how could a law prevent someone tendering it or the recipient accepting it?

Has the wording been replaced?

[Bald Brick]

I'm not a US citizen, but the last time I saw a ten dollar bill it bore the words "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private" so how could a law prevent someone tendering it or the recipient accepting it?

Has the wording been replaced?

I think it's the interpretation that has changed -- very gradually.

We don't have that wording on our notes, but the same principle used to apply. When I was in my teens a cabby or a bus driver had to accept my money regardless of denomination. If he didn't have the change it was his problem.

Today almost everybody seems to agree that too large bills are a safety hazard and that the cabbies and bus companies can't be forced to accept them. The law hasn't changed; the interpretation has: the bills are still legal tender, they just aren't to be used in certain places.

I find this hard to accept. Legal tender is legal tender. (Except, obviously, in Louisiana.)

On the other hand I won't be terribly upset when banknotes go the way of the cheque and are completely superseded by plastic money. And bartering ...

[Crow]

Say you hire a worker; you make the interview, check credentials, look his work history, and decide is good for the job.

The worker makes a huge mistake, do you fire him?  do you give him another opportunity?  do you ask yourself if you gave him proper training?

Each decision has consequences but all has the same implication You Hired Him

Politicians are workers just like you and me but the work standards are not well defined, there are many who wants "less state intervention" but when the greed of banks and companies leads to recession and unemployment want the state to fix that.

Also, there is no team work, there are many workers who has a private agenda (if I were their boss I will fire them all) and that is because no one supervise their work, their quality of the product they deliver.

On top of that, I've seen that the biggest problems politicians confronts has to do with...  you guessed it right S:E:X:  not the quality of their work, they are remembered for their bed moral not the economy or the good things they did.

I think the politicians of this thread need: proper training I would offer a seminar for all who voted that law and send them to take it, half salary of course  

[joechimp]

I once drove 40 miles to register a boat. I had the cash in my pocket as I always did. I got to the window and the woman told me that they no longer accepted cash. She said it had to be a personal check. I said I didn't bring my checkbook with me because I had always paid with cash and I lived 40 miles away. Didn't matter she said. I said how about if I just go to a bank close by and get a money order or bank check. She said no, personal check only. I told her that was ridiculous. I said what do you tell people that don't have a checking account. She said I tell them to get one.
Now you can guess what I wanted to say next but you know I couldn't do that.
End result is I had to drive all the way home to get my checkbook. Another 80 miles wasted.
Of course in hindsight, I could have gone to a local bank and opened a new account but you know they probably would not accept starter checks and I would be in the home for insane chimps right now.

The world is going upside down no matter where you live. 

[The_Dadu]

In Baltimore County, the county government offices have centralized cash payments to a single office "for security reasons".  When I went to buy a license renewal for my dog and didn't have a checkbook, I was told I had to walk across the street, thru security points twice more, and back with the receipt to pickup the tags (I have mobility issues).  All for less than $10.00.