Thread: National parks refusing cash payment from visitors, demand cashless payment

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See: NPS Just Set "Unconstitutional, Discriminatory" New Ban Rule On Visitors At Another National Park

“The bone of contention? A slowly creeping ban on cash as payment to enter sites managed by the NPS, and plenty of people are very unhappy about it.”

Before proceeding, keep in mind, we are talking about access to taxpayer-financed publicly-owned property, and not private property such as a privately owned theme park.

Our United States Code, § 5103, defines U.S. coins and currency as legal tender for all debts. For government employees to arbitrarily not accept legal tender, as defined by statutory law for payment to enter upon taxpayer owned public property is obviously in conflict with the above statute mentioned.

But even more disturbing with this arbitrary ban on legal tender as payment for entering a publicly owned park is, it blatantly discriminates against identifiable groups, e.g., the poor who may have the cash to pay to enjoy a day at a publicly owned park, but not have credit cards or bank accounts necessary for cashless payments, which in turn creates a disparate impact claim under anti-discrimination laws.

Additionally, there are other identifiable groups who are thoughtlessly discriminated against by cashless payment entry at publicly own parks. A good portion of our elderly citizens who are not tech savvy, and those withou8t electronic devices for cashless payment methods. They too are being unlawfully discriminated against and denied access to publicly owned property.

So why have some taxpayer employed public servants decided to discriminate against taxpaying citizens, who want or need to use “legal tender” to enter a publicly owned park?

These public servants tell us, "By transitioning to a cashless system, park staff will spend less time managing cash and more time helping visitors."

But nowhere in our Constitution (our nation’s rule book) are government employees allowed to discriminate against its citizens because “park staff will spend less time managing cash and more time helping visitors.”

Nowhere in our Constitution are government employees authorized to refuse statutorily defined “legal tender” as payment by American citizens to enter upon and enjoy public property.

This practice by public employees, which blatantly discriminates against identifiable groups of American citizens, needs to come to an abrupt end, and accommodations for legal tender payment needs to be restored for those wanting or needing to use legal tender, as statutorily define, for payment to enjoy publicly owned and taxpayer supported, parks, beaches, etc.

This same cashless payment crap is now used at Tampa Bay area beach public-parking lots, e.g., see:

How to Pay for Parking

Seems that these local government folks believe they can ignore our system's rule of law, and do what they please, including discriminating against various groups of American citizens and refuse to allow them to enjoy public property if they decide to, or need to, use "legal tender" as payment.

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I was talking to an elderly widowed lady a couple of years back who used to enjoy going to Madeira Beach early in the morning. It was her big event several times a week, and she really looked forward to going. But since the thoughtless government folks went to a cashless payment system, and took away the coin operated option for parking, she now sits at home because she can’t deal with the modern tech, and like many others, has been shut out of enjoying a taxpayer funded public beach.

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The Chinese Communist Party agrees with, and is working towards, a cashless society, which would usher in total control over the people.

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Thoughtful and legitimate concerns have been raised with respect to embracing a cashless society. The potential for nefarious government actors to leverage control over the people and encourage political conformity is a very real and frightening reality. Let us not forget what recently happened in Canada.



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A cashless society makes it all too easy for a corrupted government to restrict the financial activities of individuals and organizations who may oppose and protest an oppressive government agenda.

Should a cashless society be ushered in, here in the United States, and it is later found to be used for nefarious purposes by folks in government, it would not be easy to unwind that system where folks in government have an iron grip on every electronic dime one spends.

FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED!