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The IRS Has Seized $1.2 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency This Year
Breitbart ^ | 08/05/2021 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 08/05/2021 9:45:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now you know why they didn’t just make it illegal. (So they could wait until you built up some value, and take it).

Be warned. Any accumulation of value (except by gates, soros, bezos, clinton, obama) is being looked at. They WILL come and take it. They WILL skim a little off the top, calling it a tax.

bammy didn’t quite get to implement all the things he wanted to, but he’s part of the power behind the democrat party, and he’s dictating what biden should do. This will be one of the things the decrepit old fool does before he’s sent out to pasture.


21 posted on 08/05/2021 10:16:44 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: dadfly
i thought that was impossible with block-chain and digital wallet software.

Definitely happens by governments - particularly if you use a third party to hold crypto.

If you are outside the US - particularly a non us citizen - and keep your crypto in cold storage, there is not much that can happen.

22 posted on 08/05/2021 10:26:41 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

thx for the link.

ahh. well if true, that is why bitcoin isn’t going to be the panacea against the fed/banks/globalist ruling class that many here crowed about.

it’s granted with totalitarians that they will use any legitimate or illegitimate authority (power and coercion) to make you “choose” to comply. globalist crony capitalists will support them in the theft, since they are part of the same ruling class. the only financial safety we have is to boycott or slow our using their so called “services to help us (because anything they “serve” us actually serves them),” or use or find clever ways to legally use or deploy strategies that turn their own schemes against them.


23 posted on 08/05/2021 10:32:34 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: Leaning Right

There has been some talk about doing that. But nothing serious...yet.

Not sure about the yet. They are trying to sneak through some change to “protect your IRA” by only allowing the purchase of government vehicles that pay a fixed return like a few percent in government script also known as fed notes.


24 posted on 08/05/2021 10:33:59 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Leaning Right

Hard No.


25 posted on 08/05/2021 10:36:03 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Critical Race Theory: black behavior is so bad it must be whitey's fault.)
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To: dadfly
bitcoin isn’t going to be the panacea against the fed/banks/globalist ruling class that many here crowed about

Agreed--I never bought the claims made here...

Some folks just have to touch the hot stove--no way I can talk them out of it.
26 posted on 08/05/2021 10:40:22 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Leaning Right

They won’t seize 401k’s. That’s too radical even for today’s radicals.


It will be voluntary......................until it isn’t.


27 posted on 08/05/2021 10:41:11 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They won’t seize them outright. They will engineer another crash, which will halve the value of many 401Ks. Under the umbrella of “protection,” the government will convert the cash value of 401Ks into treasury securities, which will be managed by the geniuses at the SSA.


28 posted on 08/05/2021 10:48:26 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I just now completed an IRS-Treasury Department/ Inspector General course update on all their big Crypro-Currency cases.

There are several billion dollar cases.


29 posted on 08/05/2021 10:53:39 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Barbara Streisand!!


30 posted on 08/05/2021 10:57:44 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

IRS Successful Prosecutions Involving Crypto Currency

• Silk Road I and II
• Liberty Reserves
• AlphaBay Marketplace
• BTC-E
• One Coin
• Helix
• Bitcoin Fog
• North Korean Hack
• Terrorism Finance
• McAfee


31 posted on 08/05/2021 11:03:26 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here is a 65 page report summary of the IRS Criminal Investigation big cases in 2020. Real interesting read.

https://www.webcaster4.com/Player/Material?uid=5918350&materialGuid=c273308a-14bd-4c8e-bbc4-315be01c1d90


32 posted on 08/05/2021 11:08:22 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: SamAdams76
That what I like to tell the alarmists who feel our 401k’s will be seized.

"Seized" is the wrong word. Fair value will be exchanged for 401(k) assets. Your new Warren IRA Bonds will pay a guaranteed 3% return, with none of the risk associated with that nasty old stock market. The government will take the terrible risk of individual investing away from you, giving you peace of mind. :)

33 posted on 08/05/2021 11:09:16 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Only problem is my 401k has averaged a double digit return over the past 40 years!


34 posted on 08/05/2021 11:15:53 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Uncle Miltie
401Ks get you a real revolution.

Not this pussified nation.People will just roll over like they did for masks and vaccines. Pussies wanting 'safety'. Just imagine the 'safety' of a guaranteed 2-3% return by the Federal gubmint after they sieze your accounts.

35 posted on 08/05/2021 12:07:34 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Leaning Right

They’ll digitize all funds in banks, 401k etc, and take it with negative interest rates. Digitizing the debt is all that’s available to them now. We’re broke!


36 posted on 08/05/2021 12:08:30 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Did not read your post#33 before I posted #35. GMTA.


37 posted on 08/05/2021 12:10:26 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Uncle Miltie

All your all are belong to us.


38 posted on 08/05/2021 12:55:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah right. The sheep showed how easily they are herded. The feds could sieze every 401k and savings account and the sheep would baaaa in celebration. “Oh it’s so much better we won’t have to worry about cash or paying our bills anymore.” “Thank our lord and savior Biden for providing our every need.”

Nearly 2 years of lock downs and the sheep are as compliant as ever. And if these lockdowns have shown anything it has shown the vast majority of people welcome every bit of government control introduced. After all, it’s an “emergency.”


39 posted on 08/05/2021 12:59:12 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic

IF THERE IS EVEN A HINT OF 401k TALK ON THE HILL I WILL PULL MINE OUT IMMEDIATELY THAT VERY DAY!...................


40 posted on 08/05/2021 1:01:34 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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