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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1070253, member: 22143&quot;]There really isn&#039;t anything new, or IMO, illegal about this.&nbsp; For any decades after the Civil War, Southern cotton mills would often pay part of all of their workers&#039; salary in paper credits issued by the Mill that could only be spent in stores or housing owned by the textile mill.&nbsp;&nbsp; Often other businesses in the town would accept them as well if they could make an arrangement with the mill for credit.&nbsp; Obviously they did this in order, in part, to keep control over their workers.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a very similar concept to what we have now though much more ubiquitous and it has gone on for so long that it&#039;s accepted as a normal state of affairs in this country.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The US Constitution does not prevent such a thing nor require that people conduct business in commodities.&nbsp; It only states that the government has to do this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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