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From: tackett@wivax.UUCP (Raymond Tackett)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.consumers
Subject: Legal Tender and the U.S. Government
Message-ID: <19705@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 10:44:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  3 10:44:55 1984
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The person who takes passport applications at the Nashua, New Hampshire,
Post Office refuses to accept U.S. currency in payment of the fee.  Only
money orders and personal checks are acceptable.

An agency of the United States government refusing its own currency?  That
has interesting implications for the "full faith and credit" of the
United States.

Whatever happened to "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and
private"?  Is this a government response to Reaganomics?

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			  Random Access is IMMORAL!                     

                                   Ray Tackett