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Originally Posted by Rawlz517
This is no different than a small business deciding not to accept bills larger than a $20.
No, paying a debt is not the same thing as refusing to engage in a transaction to begin with. When you walk into a store and say "Hay, I want to buy a Butterfinger. Here's a 100 dollar bill." They can say no, because they don't HAVE to sell it to you.
But if you pay your taxes in pennies, they have to take it.
For contracted debts, they can only not take pennies if they specifically laid out the terms and conditions of payment. In the court case above, the payment was arranged specifically as part of a legal settlement. Sow hen the court found evidence of malicious intent, the court could declare it bad faith and order something different.
In the case of taking a wad of $2s to the cage to buy chips, no, they don't hav eto take that. Since buying chips doesn't amount to paying a debt.