EU Desperate To Raises Taxes Starts Cashless Society Project November 2017 - TruePublica
By Graham Vanbergen -A few months back The Guardian ran an article stating that “Swedes are blazing a trail in Europe, with banks, buses, street vendors and even churches expecting plastic or virtual payment” as if the cashless society was something to be celebrated by modern society.
“I don’t use cash any more, for anything,” said Louise Henriksson,
26, a teaching assistant. “You just don’t need it. Shops don’t want it;
lots of banks don’t even have it. Even for a candy bar or a paper, you
use a card or phone.”
Cash transactions are already outdated in Sweden. According to
central bank the ‘Riksbank’, cash transactions will make up up barely
0.5% of the value of all payments made in Sweden by 2020.
Likewise and according to The Independent,
Denmark has moved one step closer to becoming the world’s first
cashless society, as the government proposes scrapping the obligation
for retailers to accept cash as payment – because, as they say, its to
do with the “burden of managing change and notes.”
