Are TX drivers just horrible compared to elsewhere? I’ve always heard that roundabouts lower accidents and in particular, lower fatal accidents.
Didn’t search too much, but this was the top result on my query:
https://iowadot.gov/traffic/roundabouts/BENEFITS-OF-GOING-IN-CIRCLES/
I’m talking about 160lb loonies. Hard to stick on your body.
well, cash leaves you with many more options for creative bookeeping and non-declared income (generic remark, not targeted at a specific restaurant)
Right, part of the problem here was the spelling – the dollar coin is traditionally spelled “loonie”.
The loon is a beautiful water bird typically associated with the lakes of northern Canada and also found in parts of the northern US. I always associate the call of the loon with camping in the northern wilderness. It has a memorable, haunting call …
Do you live in the U.S.? If so, you’re lucky that the market is big enough that it’s worth it for the vendors to deal with U.S. customs.
Switzerland is not a big enough market on its own and it’s not part of the EU. There are plenty of vendors who will not put up with Swiss customs, so there are many things I cannot buy.
For the remainder? I have the pleasure of paying Swiss customs to assess the tax on my package AND pay the Swiss tax,
The county was going to rename all the roads in our subdivision, that is until they found out what a huge pain in the ass it is. I’ve had to do that for a different county.
Anyway, my one neighbor and I decided on either Loon Ln, or Chicken Crossing (Rd).
That was my first thought too, but they always ring it up on the cash register (you go up there to pay) and it becomes harder to play these games there.
I have a friend who has a cash register that his employees use for each and every sale. At the end of the day though he reruns the day’s sales on a second cash register that is back in his office.The tapes from the second register are the ones he would provide if he were audited. He has explained how the extra work saves him a certain amount of money, but I am not an accountant, so I don’t really grasp the whole thing.
Second set of books…hmmmm…the certain amount of money is definitely income taxes that he is saving.
Normally in these types of threads you see someone post about “high speed rail” and bemoaning the lack of such modes of transportation in the US.
Won’t happen here primarily due to the legal system and broad property rights in the US. For high speed rail to work, you need lots of land in a nearly straight line from point to point. Almost all high speed rail projects in the US have failed due to the high costs (as property values get driven up as the project gets proposed) and eminent domain doesn’t have as far a reach here as it does in other countries.
I’d settle for a passenger rail system that doesn’t rely on the freight railroads (which also won’t happen for the reasons stated). Every once in a while I look at the Amtrak alert system, and it seems that most of the delays are attributed to “freight interference” — which seems to be shorthand for a freight train that forced an Amtrak train off onto a siding — or a disabled freight train blocking the tracks.
Heh. A friend’s family ran a carnival when he was a teenager. Like many carnivals, it was a primarily cash business. In addition to operating the ferris wheel, he was the bookkeeper (note that he was about 14 or 15 at the time). He admits now, about 40 years later, that there were indeed two sets of books—one that accurately indicated the cash flow, and the other that didn’t. The other would be the one that would be produced should some authority ask for an audit.
I have never encountered this in the US, but did recently at an English rail station for a 200 pound purchase.
Yes, I do. I sometimes forget that not all mainland European countries aren’t part of the EU. 
I know I’ve ordered from China or Taiwan in the past and IIRC they don’t even charge shipping.
As an American, my brain briefly interpreted that as the weight of the item you purchased, rather than the price.
Sometimes it has to do with “the system” and luddite thinking. Those places also often ignore drinking age, refuse to wear masks, and allow smoking.
The fees for CC run about 2%. It has been shown that the extra fees and work with cash is about 1%.
Mind you places that make a LOT of small sales can get hit with higher charges, soi I pay cash for stuff under $10.
Vending machines, etc.
But checks are so last century. It’s like people wanting to pay in beaver skins or wampum.
Tax evasion is a national game in Greece.
They do- if you know how to use them.
We have one right here in town, it works fine.
Second set of books, and really easy for the Tax guys to audit. Not to mention, thats solid evidence of Intent to commit tax fraud.
Yeah, CA wanted it, passed a measure to get it. But then the NIMBYs came out and the lawsuits piled up.
Prices have gone up – it was only 100 yen when I was there. Which reminds me of another thing I liked about them. Say a US machine accepts $5 notes. I put in a five and select which $1 item I want, and the machine immediately dispenses my change, usually before I can get the item out of the machine. If I want to buy a second item I have to get my change and put it back into the machine. With Japanese machines, I could drop in a 500-yen coin, and the machine would give me my drink, then ask if I wanted my change or wanted to make a second purchase. I could hit yes and punch the button for a second drink, and the machine would again ask if I wanted my change.
Yeah, if you ask they say it’s because they don’t want to pay the processing fee, but I always assumed tax evasion was the real reason.
Menus in Greece are all required to include a disclaimer that says if you’re not given a receipt your meal is free. I was told it was meant to prevent that sort of tax evasion, because producing a receipt means they had to run the transaction through the cash register. But I bet they have ways of getting around that.
That and the very idea of high-speed rail in California being unbelievably stupid to begin with, if for no other reason than geography.
to me, the cash-only bars are asking to be robbed, compared to CC only bars