Earlier this year I went to baseball game and hit one of the many stands selling good old fashioned American beer. As I went to pay for a couple of those American staples, I was told that they did not accept cash...at all. That got me to thinking about that law we all heard that cash "has to be accepted" everywhere in the United States.

I paid with plastic (backed with cash of course) and went back to my seat to do some digging. According to the existing Federal legal tender law ( Section 31 U.S.C. 5103 )

United States coins and currency [including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve Banks and national banks] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.

All that said is that Ben Franklin's face is legal currency but, there is no federa

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