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From: "Attila T. Hun" <attila@hun.org> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 98 18:07:57 +0000 Subject: Re: The Continued Attack on Cash (Was: "The Right of Anonymity"...)

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I've been doing it for many years. Don't have a checking account, don't own a credit card. I do have a saving account with a local credit union and go in every 3-4 days and withdraw what I need for the next 3-4 days. Pay every bill in cash or money order.

first, the use of the credit union includes your SSN and they have a total cash transaction at least on your primary expenses.

Wrong. I go in once a week and pull out money in a lump sum. I then budget that money myself. The only thing they have is a sequence of deposits from paychecks and withdrawals to cash.

if you have "consulting" income which can be converted to cash, and dont deposit it, then you can do you 'high on the hawg' living with the cash --until they bring the IRS CID along and look at your 'imputed' income which is almost indefensible in their kangaroo courts.

I either take the fees in check and deposit them or else take 'in kind' trade (eg I did a job if installing Win95 for a customer on some laptops he'd bought via auction. There was a Tadpole 3XP Sparcbook on there. I took it for my fee).

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I'm going to go tomorrow and buy a new laptop at around $1500.

what are you getting for $1500? out here in the boonies we dont see those kind of prices.

Looks like a Toshiba Satellite 445CTX (133MHz Pentium).

well, in the first place, you live in Texas where the attitude to the Feds is rather strong --not as strong as our attitude in rural Utah where the usual transaction is in cash. out here, a Fed is the same as a revenuer in Eastern Kentucky or Tennessee. reminds me of the Fed approaching a child and telling him he'd give him $5 if he took him to his father (still) --the boy asked for the money up front. when the Fed asked why, the boy said: "...'cause you aint coming back".

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