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From: ss@wivax.UUCP (Sid Shapiro)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: What's the world coming to? :-)
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Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 13:47:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  6 13:47:57 1984
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Speaking what is this world coming to and cash, I once tried to rent a
parking space from the government (contracting at a government site
and needed a place to park).  I tried to pay the small amount in cash.
I was refused.  The government would only accept a check!

I can think of a good reason that it was not accepted (cash is too
easy to misplace...), but I was so outraged that the gov't would not
accept as payment the gov't's own money that I called the attorney
general and asked about the printing on a bill that says "This note is
legal tender for all debts public and private".  I was told somthing
like (it has been a few years) that that saying means only that I can
offer it in good faith, but it doesn't have to be accepted!  Sheesh!
-- 

Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies
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