Cashless society

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

I do carry DR and CR cards but prefer cash for regular shopping. Every week I draw out a set amount in cash for food and housekeeping. That's the budget.

 

[WestGorton]

Soon be a fingerprint or similar. Cash will remain for the foreseeable future but I don't use it much personally. Problem is it is the poor and the old that suffer again and I am very mindful of that.

 

[Summerbuzz]

As someone once said,
I will not make any deals with you…I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

Also; "I am not a number.... I am a free man!"

 

[Blue Mist]

Do you pay tax?

Yes

 

[N1985]

Never happen. Might look like it on the face of things but they'll always be that underflow of cash.

 

[Blue warrior]

Yes

We’re doing it wrong:)

 

[law74]

We are taught to like tax. Bad people don't pay and its why we haven't enough hospitals......Bollocks.
The more you pay the more they waste.
Little people pay tax, rich people don't. The ones in control are the ones who don't pay tax.

I agree with the last sentence about wealthy tax havens, but despite this I'm quite happy to pay my share of the taxation burden.
When I got my jaw smashed about 8 years ago, it was the collective tax take that paid the consultant surgeon to put it right so that I could eat again after a few weeks. It was the collective tax take that paid the nurses and cleaners in the hospital, and the collective tax take that paid for the roads for me to be driven home again.
Even thought I don't have children, I am happy for my taxes to pay for teacher's, because hopefully I will live to an old age, and some of those children being taught to read, write and count could be the nurses dishing out my medication in the old folks home, and I would quite like them to be able to read the instructions of the medication and count out the correct dosages.

 

[Blue Mist]

We’re doing it wrong:)

I didnt say I pay all the tax I should :-)

 

[Blue warrior]

I didnt say I pay all the tax I should :-)

I’m doing it wrong:)

 

[Phil1]

Won’t happen for a good while. This makes me happy.