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Note note how the word "legal" comes back again there. It doesn't mean "legal" as opposed to illegal. It means "for the purpose of settling things within the legal system".

Anyway, that treasury.gov link is actually a good reference for the original point I was trying to make about the introduction section of the paper: it explains that companies are not obliged to accept legal tender for normal payments.

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Normal payments are not debt. If you want to buy a tv at a store, they can decline cash as a form of payment. You don’t owe them. The tv in your cart at the checkout aisle is still theirs. There is no debt.

But if you bought that same tv on an installment plan, they would have to accept payments in cash.

The first one does not involve debt, the second does. That’s the difference.

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