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> This is targeted at law abiding smallholding farmers where roadside transactions are often done in cash Where (in NL) do you find farmers who routinely need
by elric 3y ago
> This is targeted at law abiding smallholding farmers where roadside transactions are often done in cash
Where (in NL) do you find farmers who routinely need to accept >3k in cash and are (somehow?) unable to accept electronic payments? Pretty much everyone everywhere can accept at least one form of electronic payments. That's a legal requirement for any business in Belgium, and I can't imagine the Dutch being that far behind on that ...
Even if you can't take card or contactless payments or apps, you can do instant bank transfers with most banks within the EU ("Instant Payments"), either free of charge or pretty cheap. There's no excuse for being unable to accept non-cash money. There are, however, plenty of reasons to be unwilling, but that's another story.
- macinjosh 3y agoWhy does the NL want to kick down at the farmers so badly? Don't they know where real food comes from?
- ticviking 3y agoPeople who can independently produce food have a form of real power that is very hard to resist. The measures used to keep various peasant and serf classes under control were so extreme in history because if they became able to exercise that power the social order was overturned.
- ElectricalUnion 3y agoIs the only way to buy "real food", to buy it in chunks of 3000+ EUR paper money? That sounds pretty expensive and a lot of "real food" for the average person. And if it is a business transaction sounds like a suspicious business transaction.
- macinjosh 3y agoWow megabrain. A farmer could easily sell a truck of produce for well more than 3k
- piuantiderp 3y agoOnly way to reduce the population. Restrict the food supply
- JW_00000 3y agoWhy do you assume this proposal is targeting farmers specifically?
- Lutger 3y agoHow does this affect farmers specifically? In fact, it does not.