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When do we kick this kegger off?


Afraid that's what they're hoping for so they can respond in a draconian manner. Push, push, push until people snap.


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Until the government stops issuing or accepting it. I think this move is a hint at what's coming. Or at least what some in government would like to come. If they're turning the screws on traceable money, how long do you think they'll let untraceable money exist.

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Cash is king, ladies and gents.

yep. always has been and always will be
 
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When do we kick this kegger off?


Afraid that's what they're hoping for so they can respond in a draconian manner. Push, push, push until people snap.

I believe you are absolutely correct. They are pushing the people of this nation to do something, knowing that the majority won't.


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Until the government stops issuing or accepting it. I think this move is a hint at what's coming. Or at least what some in government would like to come. If they're turning the screws on traceable money, how long do you think they'll let untraceable money exist.

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Cash is king, ladies and gents.

yep. always has been and always will be

Now that the government has its fingers into coinbase and other crypto apps, they'll do exactly that.

The USD based crypto already exists, and the .GOV folks have already been rumored in crypto forums to have developed a USGOV crypto currency. In the end...since neither the USGOV crypto and the USD Cash is based on any gold standard but rather the "worth" of the US economy...they're both fictitious currency.

I'm sure the .gov knows all the gold and silver I've bought from APMEX in the last several years also.


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actually, the IRS has pretty much given up on auditing the wealthy, because the wealthy often receive their income via complicated investments rather than straight salaries, and can afford accountants and lawyers who outgun the IRS on tax expertise. The IRS now focuses on the middle-class, where the incomes are more straight-forward and those being audited can't afford to hire the best defense teams.

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Not quite. The chance of being audited increases with income. Being self employed also increases the chances. We are not talking about the ultra wealthy here.


Absolutely right. It's the well-to-do traditionally salaried, and the self-employed who face the brunt of audits.
 
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So you have gold and silver. If there's no more cash, how do you use it? Try paying your mortgage, your electric bill, buying groceries, etc. with gold or silver. Nowadays you can convert it into cash untraceably. But without cash, you'll have to buy Fedcoin (or whatever it will be called) to do any transactions, and THAT transaction will be traceable.

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Originally posted by BBMW:
Until the government stops issuing or accepting it. I think this move is a hint at what's coming. Or at least what some in government would like to come. If they're turning the screws on traceable money, how long do you think they'll let untraceable money exist.

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Originally posted by nasig:
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Cash is king, ladies and gents.

yep. always has been and always will be

Now that the government has its fingers into coinbase and other crypto apps, they'll do exactly that.

The USD based crypto already exists, and the .GOV folks have already been rumored in crypto forums to have developed a USGOV crypto currency. In the end...since neither the USGOV crypto and the USD Cash is based on any gold standard but rather the "worth" of the US economy...they're both fictitious currency.

I'm sure the .gov knows all the gold and silver I've bought from APMEX in the last several years also.
 
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Submit or lose everything. Yeah, I get it.

My line in the sand has been drawn. I don't redraw lines...


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I hate to burst bubbles here. As my wife has spent 20+ years working in IA, AML, Comp in corporate banking from Wamu, to Chase, to many others.

The banks pretty much with out exception do this down to every transaction over a penny. It makes running the SARs reports a lot easier. The testing and Validation processes may be only a percentage of that. What is run up the flag pole to the government might even be one name out of a few thousands but they have the data.

They have had it for the last decade. The Fed has known it, the various regulators have known it.

Now the issue is how to collate that date to present it for those SARS reports. The whole complete onus is put upon the banks. There isn't a governmental agency that can sift through the data.

So any data that is given to the feds has to be boxed up, packaged, wrapped, ribbon put on it, a bow-tied, insurance paid, and then a fucking instruction sheet for the feds to even think about looking at it.

Remember one little thing, government efficiency. The more information, the more controls, the more data the less efficient they are.
 
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Absolutely right. It's the well-to-do traditionally salaried, and the self-employed who face the brunt of audits.


I was self employed for over 20 years, got audited once due to some capital gains I somehow neglected to claim on my return.

During the audit it turns out I also had some Capital losses that greatly overshadowed the Capital Gains and I had a $3,000/year Capital Loss Carryover for 5 years.

You don't really have to fear an audit if you're careful with your write offs and income from self employment.
 
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Holding 600 dollars or less precludes one form "free" checking/savings account. Hey - a new tax
 
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So are politicians included in this or do they get exempted?


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Hi, I would like to make 26 deposits into my account in the amount of $599. Thanks


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Reminds me of the time I was ~22ish and working for my uncle, a general contractor, building homes in Jacksonville Florida. One of my jobs was to go around on Friday and pay the subs. I used to carry a wad of cash sometimes upward of $10k, and everyone was happy to see me on Friday early afternoon. Construction taught me well all about a cash economy. 90% of what those subcontractors did was for cash. We may well be heading back to that very environment again.


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Hi, I would like to make 26 deposits into my account in the amount of $599. Thanks


Likely you jest, but if you are not...

"Structuring is the practice of executing financial transactions in such a way that the filing of financial reports to the government is avoided. "

While I do not agree with the laws, and I understand people side stepping such controls, one cannot fight battle, nor engage in gorilla* warfare, without knowing the enemy's tactics, goals, means and methods.



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They're already set up to flag a series of deposits just under the $10,000 reporting limit in order to catch drug dealers.
 
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No. Something else changed along the way that no one seems to have noticed. Companies are now required to 1099 everyone. If they don't issue the 1099, they can't write off the expense of paying the other company. So the days of handing out cash are largely over.

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Reminds me of the time I was ~22ish and working for my uncle, a general contractor, building homes in Jacksonville Florida. One of my jobs was to go around on Friday and pay the subs. I used to carry a wad of cash sometimes upward of $10k, and everyone was happy to see me on Friday early afternoon. Construction taught me well all about a cash economy. 90% of what those subcontractors did was for cash. We may well be heading back to that very environment again.
 
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Now the issue is how to collate that date to present it for those SARS reports. The whole complete onus is put upon the banks. There isn't a governmental agency that can sift through the data.

So any data that is given to the feds has to be boxed up, packaged, wrapped, ribbon put on it, a bow-tied, insurance paid, and then a fucking instruction sheet for the feds to even think about looking at it.

Remember one little thing, government efficiency. The more information, the more controls, the more data the less efficient they are.


There's no way to do it manually, no, but I think it actually wouldn't be a particularly difficult job to automate.

Just back-of-the-envelope, trying to be conservative (make the estimate worse than reality) there are 330 million people in the US.

If every person in the US had 30 bank accounts, and each of those 30 bank accounts had 100 transactions per day, that's ~1 trillion transactions a day. If each transaction is 1 KB of data that's maybe ~1 petabyte per day.

These days, I don't think you'd even need a cluster, you could handle that with one good server and a closet full of hard drives.

That estimate does ignore stuff like the high-frequency traders that make a zillion stock market purchases and sales. I don't know enough about the volume of that to make a meaningful estimate, but in practical terms, there are only a few US stock markets and they're all already running on computer clusters in data centers somewhere, so we already know a system can be built to handle the volume of data.
 
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To what end?


Somebody has to pay for that 3.5 trillion, closer to 5.5 trillion after you remove all the 'creative book keeping'

This is a 1st step, the bottom 90%, 401K, IRA, that's were all the money is at.


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