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I rarely carry currency.  As for the transfer of disease, how can you prove this?  During the course of the day,you come in contact with hundreds of potential germ carriers from banisters, elevator buttons, grocery carts, you name it, someone touched it before you did.  Soo, I don't buy the disease carrier argument.  But, I do see the obsolescence of currency and coin.   As for the homeless guy needing a handout, he needs to get a job and get off the streets or get on Obama's payroll. 

How would I give the homeless person a few bucks?I'll stick with paper.

Con, we would lose privacy if we were to go to an all card system. The card is encoded with personal information. Money is not. 

Colleen

I don't give up my constitutional rights that easily. Carry sanitizer if you're that worried about germs. I've never gotten sick from the money I've handled, at least not that I know if and if I did, it wasn't a serious illness.

What I'm thinking is..... How will the drug dealers buy their supplies ? How are the druggies going to buy their preferred drug from the streets ?

As for germs........Money is not the only thing that harbours germs.They are everywhere.

Colleen

They can get those handheld credit card devices.