• Clay_pidgin
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    491 month ago

    Funny how Sovvies want us to accept their coupons but only want to be paid in gold themselves.

    • @Darkard
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      1 month ago

      Wouldn’t that be fantastic. Make up my own mumbo jumbo Sovcit food stamps and then use them to buy their stuff.

      They either have to admit it’s bollocks or accept the stamps and effectively give me their stuff for nothing.

      • stinerman [Ohio]
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        141 month ago

        Walk up to the counter with a 1099a and be like “here you go bud, it’s all there in the strawman account. Later.” and then walk out with what you took.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        Ah, but you see, they’re not a corporation, therefore they can’t access the mumbo jumbo account.

        • @edgemaster72
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          31 month ago

          But surely my straw man can pay his straw man and then he can draw on it when needed?

    • @Red_October
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      81 month ago

      I doubt very much a Sovvie could manage to run a garage sale, much less an actual business.

      • @TexasDrunk
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        71 month ago

        You’d be shocked. There’s a “garage sale” down from where I grew up that’s been going on since the 80s and is run by one of those folks. He only takes cash (hell, he might take gold too for all I know).

        It’s literally like a single booth flea market and that guy hasn’t had another job in years.

        • @acetanilide
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          221 days ago

          Fascinating. That’s illegal in my town. Or whatever it is when you break a city ordinance.

          • @TexasDrunk
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            221 days ago

            He’s not really “in town”. But he’s definitely breaking tax laws. I would bet anything in the world that he’s in one of these groups telling people he hasn’t paid taxes in the last 40 years and if others are paying then they’re suckers.

            • @acetanilide
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              220 days ago

              Gotcha. I do wonder with these folks about property taxes. And sales tax I suppose but the not paying the property tax would get them run out of their house…

    • @Red_October
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      61 month ago

      Ask them and they’ll say Bankruptcy is itself magic. You say the magic words, sign the magic papers with some nonsense, slap some postage notes somewhere probably, and all the debt just goes away.

  • @GeneralEmergency
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    181 month ago

    I mean. You can just do that can’t you? It’s your business and you set the prices.

    • @JayleneSlide
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      41 month ago

      We will see this in a federal court case before too long. In the US cash is legal tender for transactions, but plenty of businesses are moving to card-only. This is kinda legal gray area now, but when I still owned businesses it was quite illegal. I consulted my business attorney about going to card-only because of too many hold-up attempts. That was a complete non-starter.

  • stinerman [Ohio]
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    81 month ago

    My recollection is that you only are required to take cash for the payment of a debt (so your mortgage company can’t demand to be paid in bushels of corn). So theoretically this person could create a business that doesn’t take USD but as @[email protected] said, almost no one carries small bits of gold and silver (or certificates of the same) with them.

  • @Aganim
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    81 month ago

    Yes, I too like to be paid in sliver.