Re: [Nolug] Fw: new credit cards

That doesn't contradict what I wrote, since "convenience" and "cost"
are literally orthogonal, but in practice usually inverse.

Businesses who take credit cards post the processing fees as a
"sales expense".

Besides, "cash only" lets you pocket more and report less.

On 01/28/2011 01:35 PM, general.reikan@gmail.com wrote:
> Quite a few of the restaurants and bars in my neighborhood don't
> take anything but cash.
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> On Jan 28, 2011 1:23 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> On 01/28/2011 01:08 PM, general.reikan@gmail.com wrote:
>> Why I would want to put my passport, much less my financial
>> information, on an RFID chip is beyond me. I guess it's time to make
>> a little tin foil hat for my wallet.
>
> US Passport Cards (valid -- as identification and -- "only for
> international land and sea travel between the US, Canada, Mexico and
> the Caribbean") come in a foil-lined Tyvek sleeve.
>
>> Whatever happened to good old fashioned cash?
>>
>
> Less convenient...
>

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Milton Friedman
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