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“E-cash should protect payment privacy like paper cash as much as reasonably possible, keep hidden tracking or blocking tools out of devices, limit collection of payment data, and prevent people from being treated as suspicious only for holding or using e-cash.”
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“The Federal Reserve should not launch a retail digital dollar for the public unless Congress clearly approves it first.”
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“The Federal Reserve and Treasury should not design, build, issue, test, or approve central bank digital currency programs, including private-company pilots, unless Congress first passes a new law allowing it.”
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“People should be able to pay federal taxes, fines, fees, and other government charges with e-cash, request federal benefits as e-cash, and use e-cash with sellers that take paper cash when doing so is reasonable and workable.”
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“E-cash should be treated much like physical cash for money-laundering, customer-identification, transaction-reporting, and Bank Secrecy Act monetary-instrument laws, and the e-cash director should be able to raise reporting thresholds but not lower them.”
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“The Federal Reserve Board should not study, test, build, launch, or operate a CBDC or a very similar digital asset.”
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“Federal Reserve banks should not offer banking products or services directly to individual people or hold personal accounts for them.”
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“Federal Reserve banks should not create a public digital dollar, or a very similar digital asset, for individual people either directly or through banks, payment companies, or other middlemen.”
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“People should not pay fees to keep, receive, send, or spend e-cash, and merchants and users should not be charged service, interchange, processing, or surcharge fees for e-cash payments or purchases.”
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“The Federal Reserve should try to protect banks, credit unions, and community lenders from e-cash-related liquidity problems, but it should not do that by blocking public access to e-cash.”
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“An independent five-member privacy board should review whether Treasury and the e-cash program protect privacy and civil liberties, report to Congress at least twice each year, and issue extra reports when needed.”
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“The main e-cash system should settle payments without depending on a shared ledger, blockchain-style record, or payment company to process each transaction.”
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“People should be able to send e-cash directly to another person or seller right away, even without internet service, using secure cards, phones, cash-like bearer devices, or stored-value cards.”
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“Private dollar-denominated digital money should remain allowed when anyone can access it, people can use it without permission, and it protects privacy like coins and paper cash.”
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“The Treasury Department should be able to create e-cash as a digital form of U.S. money that counts as legal tender like paper bills and coins and is backed directly by the United States.”
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