( Tyler, Texas ) - It is becoming easier and easier for us to carry around our debit card to make purchases compared to actual cash in our wallets. Some of us feel safer because we aren't increasing our chances of being robbed. Businesses are keeping less cash on hand and for their deposits for the same reason.

And yes, some businesses have decided to not accept cash any longer as payment for their goods or services. But is this legal? You would think we wouldn't have to ask this question.

How Texas Businesses Can Refuse Cash as Payment

My first job was at Burger King in the Westwood Shopping Center on the West Loop in Tyler . This was the mid 1990s and debit cards were just becoming a thing for consumers to carry. At Burger King, we didn't have a credit card machine so it was cash

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