PC has nothing to do with it. It's because it costs money to replace the money you take out of circulation by defacing it.Caliostro said:PS: Why is this illegal besides some retrograde sense of uptight political correctness?
Isn't the person just burning away their own money? I could understand it if you defaced someone else's money, or tried to use your defaced money to purchase things... But the first would most likely involve theft or vandalism at some point, and the second could be stopped by simply making defaced bills unusable.CyberKnight said:PC has nothing to do with it. It's because it costs money to replace the money you take out of circulation by defacing it.
But the law is, it's illegal only if you deface it to the extent that it is no longer usable.
reference [http://www.divinecaroline.com/22307/82928-what-s-legal-comes-legal-tender-]
I'd have to guess that wouldn't apply to any of the bills here; they all look pretty usable to me.
I had defaced money hadn't to me in fast food joints. To which i would remark, "Hey! Give me real money, you cheating bastard!CantFaketheFunk said:Who could ever bring themselves to part with something like that?