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Old 4th Dec 2014, 16:05
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Mechta
 
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The simple answer to that is to provide stamps or credits which can only be used for essentials.
Dream on. I was a milkman briefly in the '90s. Convenience store owners in Leicester would cheerfully take childrens milk tokens for ciggies & booze, leaving the milk bill unpaid.
Fox3, so you're saying because a few people abused a system, we should live with a worse one, rather than punishing those who abused the better one? If you make the fines sufficiently draconian and do spot checks, then the shopkeepers will toe the line.
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