Reply #21: way to miss the point

[pitohui]

if you force people to go back to using cash, they will be badly hurt because they will be victimized by armed robbers

that's pretty basic

working people are not buying $50 bowls, poor working people can't even get out to a pier 1, they are located in distant suburbs, i do not know of any pier 1 in an area where an urban working poor person would shop, the three i know of are in upscale areas, the price of rice at pier 1 is an irrelevance

i understand that you dislike credit cards but if you push everyone back to cash then people who live in the neigbhorhoods where the police won't patrol -- that would be poor and working class neighborhoods -- will see a spike in armed robberies

we just had a 20 yr old kid killed in an armed robbery yesterday in the gno area -- shot in the back of the head after the robbers previously failed to get anything from the two little old ladies they targeted