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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1496527, member: 27043&quot;]The original poster, and folks in the video were simply ignorant.&nbsp; They simply didn&#039;t know the law.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You, on the other hand, have chosen for some inexplicable reason to be intentionally misleading and/or misinformed.&nbsp; I suspect the former, given your misuse of words and terms.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>TO begin with, as you&#039;d know had you followed the link, the US Treasury cites exactly the same statute, and indeed precisely the same section of it, as you, when rendering their opinion that you are wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Secondarily, you suggest that the quotes are &#039;taken out of context&quot;&nbsp; Except, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_context" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_context" rel="nofollow">you see</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The US Treasury quote was taken directly from their answer to :</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, the context of the quote was, quite specifically, the same as the topic being discussed.&nbsp; Is it illegal to refuse legal tender as payment?</p><p><br /></p><p>You may &quot;stick with the letter of the law&quot; all you wish.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are, however, misinterpreting it, as is made clear by those tasked with enforcing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>=====================</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t really get why this concept is so hard to grasp.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Legal tender is legal, as tender.&nbsp; That&#039;s it.&nbsp; it&#039;s allowed to be used to pay things.&nbsp; There&#039;s not a single section, even a vague grey area, that even BEGINS to suggest it MUST be accepted by ANYONE to whom it is offered.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s legal to pick your nose and wipe the results on the nearest hedgehog.</p><p><br /></p><p>That doesn&#039;t make it mandatory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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