Response from: John (Check me out!)

Funny. There's this little phrase printed on my money. It says, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." Not SOME debts. Not just debts on the ground. ALL debts. Alaska airlines might want to check up on that tiny little detail.

Response from: Jay (Check me out!)

>>Anyway, just an FYI if you're zooming in or out of Alaska. Or Seattle, Portland, Miami, Boston or New York. Or just about anywhere in California, Hawaii or Mexico. ...and Alaska, too.

Response from: NekoIncardine (Check me out!)

Honestly, this does not surprise me in the slightest, though I'm very questioning about the technical details of how this is happened. There are legitimate reasons to not want to take cash - for one it means the same person can handle food and payment. Doesn't mean this isn't a really stupid idea, but it's not TOTALLY unjustified, even from a standpoint of irresponsible spending. It's also good to note that companies are, legally, free to accept any forms of payment they do and do not want. All that Cash being legal tender means is that it is the form the government will ALWAYS back, not that everyone HAS to take it. (To name one example, dedicated arcades often only accept special tokens, which can be purchased using cash, but NOT exchanged back.)

Response from: (Check me out!)

Cash being legal tender does mean that you have to accept it. This is the only reason that the US was able to go from the gold system to the system we have. Banks use to print money, and it didn't work very well because there were so many different types of money printed and you had to have the bank in your area to accept it, and many other problems. The government printing the cash and mandating that people accept it as legal tender is what makes our system work.