首页
登录
职称英语
Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists. Instead "cash" is electron
Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists. Instead "cash" is electron
游客
2023-12-27
73
管理
问题
Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists. Instead "cash" is electronic, as in bankcard systems. Currency and coin are abandoned. The immediate benefits would be profound and fundamental. Theft of cash would become impossible. Bank robberies and cash-register robberies would simply cease to occur. Attacks on shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and cashiers would all end. Purse snatchings would become a thing of the past. Urban streets would become safer. Retail shops in once-dangerous areas could operate in safety. Security costs and insurance rates would fall. Property values would rise. Neighborhoods would improve.
Drug traffickers and their clients, burglars and receivers of stolen property, arsonists for hire, and bribe-takers would no longer have the advantage of using untraceable currency. Electronic "money" would leave incriminating wails of data, resulting in more arrests and convictions. These prosecutions, in turn, would inhibit further crimes.
The impact of the monetary change on underground economies would be nearly as dramatic as the effect on crime. In the United States, the underground economy is estimated at between 10% and 28% of the gross national product. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) researches suggest that almost all hidden labor is paid in currency.
In a society devoid of physical money, a change from cash to recorded electronic money would be accompanied by a flow of previously unpaid income-tax revenues running in the tens of billions of dollars. As a result, income-tax rates could be lowered and the national debt reduced.
Cash has been the root of much social and economic evil. The emergence of electronic funds-transfer technology makes it possible to change the nature of money and to divorce it from evil. Eighty percent of Americans regularly use credit cards. The development of a federal system to handle the country’ s 300 billion annual cash transactions in the United States electronically is within reach.
A national electronic-money system would operate as debit-card system. Each individual’s "money" would be held in his money-system account. A transaction would effect an instant transfer of "money" from his account to that of another account holder.
The principal differences between a national electronic-money system and commercial bank-card systems would be: the money system would be federally operated; payment would constitute "legal tender"; system-account holders would be able to receive as well as pay out funds by use of their accounts; and funds would be transferable between private-account holders as well as between merchants and private-account holders.
Only cash would be supplanted by electronic money. The use of checks, drafts, money orders, traveler’s checks, cashier’s checks, as well as letters of credit, acceptances, and other financial instruments would remain in regular use. Credit card and automatic-teller-machine systems (ATMs) would not necessarily change, although you could no longer obtain cash at ATMs. [br] The greatest disadvantage of using cash is that it ______.
选项
A、encourages people to steal
B、makes money readily available for people in need of it
C、enables people to engage in many kinds of illegal activities
D、discourages people from paying tax
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3311170.html
相关试题推荐
Whatdoesusinganelectronicdevicedotoyourbrain?[originaltext]Usinganel
HowlongdoAmericansspendadayinfrontofacomputerorotherelectronicdev
Womenwhowalkalittleoverthreekilometerseachdaymightlivelongerthanle
Henceinsteadofenjoyingtheircapacitiesforresponsibleworkandlove,theya
Thosefarmersnolongerusepesticidestocontrolfruitflies,andsoareablet
脸书并没有传播智慧,而是散布令人着迷且加深偏见的内容。(dishout;reinforce)Insteadofimpartingwisdom,Face
社会在治疗心理疾病方面确实取得了很大的进展。(comealongway)Societyhascertainlycomealongwayin
Modernindustrialsocietygrantslittlestatustooldpeople.Infact,such
Modernindustrialsocietygrantslittlestatustooldpeople.Infact,such
Modernindustrialsocietygrantslittlestatustooldpeople.Infact,such
随机试题
Itwasthedistrictsportsmeeting.Myfootstillhadn’thealed(痊愈)froma(n)
GrandTetonNationalPark______themostscenicportionoftheglaciated,snow-
with本题空格处是说一些较年轻的妇女带着孩子乘舟去森林种植园。gowith意为“伴随”,因此应填with.
Chinahasoutlinedanewapproachtoforeigninvestment,withplannerssayin
CultureTherearesomanythingsaboutour
Weoftenpassonlittlebitsofinformationtoourchildren,notknowingif
A.中枢利尿药B.胆碱受体拮抗剂C.胆碱受体激动剂D.肾上腺素受体拮抗剂E.肾上
组合电器内部绝缘故障、击穿时应根据()指令隔离故障组合电器,将其他非故障设备恢复
( )是指人与事的不适应是绝对的,适应是相对的,从不适应到适应是在运动中实现的
建设社会主义政治文明的核心是()。A.发展社会主义民主 B.健全社会主义法制
最新回复
(
0
)