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On the recordJuly 15, 2014
To my friend from Florida, I agree, except that the world has moved, and businesses that are legal in these vast array of States should be able to operate in a businesslike fashion. They should be able to have checking accounts and credit cards and payroll accounts, instead of operating solely in cash that invites robberies, invites assault and batteries, invites tax evasion. The system--the banking system should be able to provide for that, instead of just operating in a cash setting. So we need to limit and avoid the crime that the cash invites, and we need to allow these businesses to operate in a businesslike fashion. The States and the people of those States have chosen to move forward. We should not, through the banking system, try to stop that and then create crime in its wake.
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Ed Perlmutter
Democratic · Colorado
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Jul 15, 2014

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