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Jim Balcom <balcomj@idkent.com> wrote 

> As far as I know, the ONLY legal tender in this great nation of ours is the
> almighty greenback - NOT the check. 

   Care to pass that on to the Ethics and Elections Committee's of the House
and Senate in the state of Florida?  I have tried w/o making much headway.
They have made the campaign check defacto money - aka legal tender.

> However, that may be in danger: the US
> Government seems to think that they can force us all to have bank accounts
> in the very near future, since they are planning to stop making out those US
> Government checks and will do only direct deposit.

   They can't.  Fortunately, no gvt. branch has the power to make you contract
with folks you care not associate with.

> Put that aside: there is NO obligation to accept a check from ANYone.

   Unless you care to be paid for your labor(s).

>  You can always side-step these banks that are more and more thinking that they
> are God's gift to the world and demand cash from the person who writes you a
> check - ESPECIALLY if they have already given you a check that bounced.

   Sigh, were that only so.