Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores

The Bible is clear that during the Great Tribulation, which will commence AFTER the Church is gone, every person on earth will need a mark to buy or sell anything.  Cash will no longer be good like it is today.  You won't be able to walk up to someone and pay them $5 for a hot dog...you will have to produce your mark and have the transaction approved like you do a VISA purchase today.

As we see this day draw near we shouldn't be surprised to see some stores popping up across the country that REFUSE to take cash.  They would be called CASHLESS STORES.

The city of Philadelphia has banned cashless stores, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, in a move that “will require most retail stores to accept cash” as opposed to credit cards or mobile devices.

Despite the text on the U.S. dollar bill stating, “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private,” that only applies to creditors. Unless mandated by other laws, retail stores, restaurants, and other businesses are not actually obligated to accept cash as a form of payment, and lately, there has been a wave of businesses banning physical currency and instead asking for payment via cards or apps. While businesses claim that going cashless allows for greater efficiency and prevents stick-up attempts, that new model has also spurred accusations of classism and deliberate intent to shut out the economically disadvantaged. Philadelphia officials cited those arguments when passing the law, the Journal wrote:

Philadelphia City Councilman William Greenlee, a Democrat, said he was inspired to introduce the bill after noticing some Center City sandwich shops had gone cashless.

“Most of the people who don’t have credit tend to be lower income, minority, immigrants. It just seemed to me, if not intentional, at least a form of discrimination,” he said. Now, he said, stores will be required “to do what businesses have been doing since Ben Franklin was walking the streets of Philadelphia.”

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, signed the bill into law last week. His spokesman noted that 26% of city residents live below the poverty line and many don’t have a bank account. Cash can be loaded onto prepaid debit cards, but those come with various fees.

“It just seemed to me unfair that I could walk into a coffee shop right across from City Hall, and I had a credit card and could get a cup of coffee. And the person behind me, who had United States currency, could not,” Greenlee told the New York Times.

According to the Times, businesses in violation of the policy after it goes into effect on July 1 could receive $2,000 fines.

Here;  https://gizmodo.com/philadelphia-just-banned-most-cashless-stores-a-first-1833145078

So Philadelphia has said these stores are illegal, so stores in this city HAVE to accept cash or accept a fine.  There are so many poor people in Philadelphia that maybe don't have bank accounts, or maybe a homeless person who begged for $5 from a stranger and now can't spend it at the store of his choosing. 

So in essence the reason that the Democrat Mayor of Philly wanted this stopped was that poor people might be affected.

It's interesting to note that Revelation 6 says a day is coming when the poor people left behind will have to work all day long just to earn enough food to keep them alive, but the wealthy people will be allowed to carry on with their wine and oil for a while longer before all their wealth and health is destroyed as well.

Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”