Is there any reason for someone to fly between states with so much money ? It’s not just the tsa that could rob it
We don’t ask folks to declare other financial instruments (cashiers check, money orders) or jewelry on domestic flights. Cash is no different.
That is waaay too specific for you to have come up with it right off the top of your head; I sense there's a story here.
You're civil, aren't you? Or were we just caught thinking with that side of the brain again?
Contrary to popular belief, there are in general perfectly reasonable people out there to talk business with in transit.
Not every person you meet will be "civil", despite appearances.
And dont forget that, at least for some people, 100k is chunk change. Maybe they are heading to a big poker tournament with other 0.1%ers.
Life can be stranger than fiction, and I love a good story.
Anyway, I call shenanigans unless he showed you his suitcase full of cash.
Was shooting a movie and had too much trouble setting up a Canadian account so decided to pay everyone cash.
Cash was counted and returned to him.
If you have full-disk-encryption and a crypto-wallet passphrase, you may be held on contempt charges anyways. That might be better, it might not. The underlying problem of "the state can seize your assets if you act 'suspicious'" is still there.
dogecoin is the ultimate asset of the digital nomad
I hear you. You can't get $82k cash from an ATM, you need a flesh and blood teller for that. Fine, fine, if there's a bank of bitcoin that will facilitate my $82k withdrawal, I'd be happy with that.
You can spread it out over time. Banks would rather you did it in person so they can do the paperwork fpr large cash transactions once instead of 41 times.
Which is hilarious, in a tragic way, because I've almost always ended up as an outlier in most sets of data that I end up in. Nice to know somewhere along the way the powersthat be decided to make everyone's life even more miserably constrained, probably in the name of risk mitigation.
Secondly, I play a lot of poker and regularly take $25k or more with me to Vegas, especially if it’s a spur of the moment flight. I keep my bankroll in cash because it’s simpler than having to go to a bank every time I want to play.
Additionally, I also play locally and it’s tough to get access to tens of thousands in actual cash immediately, especially in a small cardroom or “home” game.
- Distrust of government herein obviously justified
- Large debts including but not limited to medical debt that would result in the funds enriching creditors instead of serving the individuals needs
- Need to do business with individuals with any of the above considerations the best example is probably a car from a private seller.
- A transaction related to the marijuana industry that is legal for the majority of Americans and still illegal federally and therefore untouchable by a bank.
If you don't carry it in a bag with a large dollar sign or lurk in a bad part of town after dark your chances of getting robbed are statistically small.
Back in 19(mumble), I drove from VA to IL with all of my possessions in my Civic Hatchback, including my life savings wrapped in a towel, inside a casserole, inside my microwave. Now, my life savings at the time was around $2500... I was moving, so I closed out my old bank account and planned to open a new one when I got where I was going.
When I was a kid, my mom was the bookkeeper for a local drug store. She had to make the treasury drop at the bank (deposit the cash from the registers). She would drive her car, and an assistant manager would literally ride shotgun - ok, not literally, he was wearing a pistol.
You are allowed to <except>. Just be ause you don't normally run into X doesn't mean it's illegal; regardless of what law enforcement and the media do their best to have you believe.
This is exactly the kind of thinking uninspiring politicians have when they try to or pass laws that curtail freedom for no good reason.
Plenty of people love and use cash, myself included. We don't need a reason for our preferences, but there exist plenty of good ones if you unreasonably demand that one exist.