Posted on 05/11/2018 4:29:47 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Australia’s Liberal Party government has announced that it will soon be illegal to purchase anything over $10,000 AU ($7,500 US) with cash. The government says it’s, “encouraging the transition to a digital society,” and cracking down on tax evasion. But not everyone is happy with the move.
“This will be bad news for criminal gangs, terrorists and those who are just trying to cheat on their tax or get a discount for letting someone else cheat on their tax,” Treasurer Scott Morrison said in a speech announcing the government’s new budget. “It’s not clever. It’s not OK. It’s a crime.”
The ban starts on July 1, 2019 and any payment over $10,000 will have to be made by check or credit/debit card. The government will enforce the measure by allocating roughly $300 million for what it calls the Black Economy Standing Taskforce. The goal is to drum up about $3 billion in new tax revenue over the next four years.
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[Once cash goes, our freedom will be null and void]
Well.....I agree.
Tracked by your phone, etc. Credit cards and debit cards. Facebook for those willing to give up personal info, daily.
Now, just send off your DNA for “ancestry”. I’m sure it’s not entered into a database and collected nor anything like that.
I would suppose people will now make 2 payments: One for $7,499 and the second for $1.
This makes NO sense at all! How are these Liberals supposed to receive their under the table bribes, kick-backs and pay-offs?? Check? Credit card? ATM?
I jokingly cried out 'Communists!'
I could just as easily have cried out 'Capitalists!'
And so I am reminded of G. K. Chesterton's comment that communism and capitalism are just two sides to the same materialist coin.
We are humans and we should be governed by human laws and not antiseptic ideologies that goad us into being more efficient or more healthy or more {insert goody-two-shoes nostrum here}.
I am pretty sure that’s racist.
Cash is lawful, this is ridiculous.
I dont want purchases contingent on big brother.
Fuch big brother. To death.
Soon everyone will need a mark without which they’ll not be able to buy or sell.
These days I’m betting that to keep Muslims happy the mark will include the phrase In the name of Allah with the crossed swords ... which apparently looks in Arabic just like what John saw all those centuries ago.
Mr. Morrison, you are an idiot. Yes, it will have an affect on potential tax cheats. But you are as stupid as the gun control advocates if you think that criminals and terrorists will be deterred in the slightest from committing a low level crime in order to carry out high level crimes.
Dumb as a box of rocks!
I suppose when it is no longer backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Marine Corps, the bankers can begin interpreting this clause any way they like. :)
States across the nation are issuing license plates with enhanced selectivity, water marks to enable ALPR’s (automatic Lic. plate readers) to capture hundreds of license plate numbers per hour and compare to database records for outstanding tickets, lapsed insurance/registration, wants and warrants. A few cities in Texas now track when an automobile enters their city and when they leave using these lic. plate readers.
Read few weeks ago, UAE or Abu...one of those countries were trial running digital lic plates. These plates would communicate with the local authorities. If you are speeding...issues an automatic citation. If your reg./insur. has lapsed, it will automatically issue fines AND...automatically deduct from your account. The plates will also allow government to display alerts/messages on your plate. So on and so on.
So...fast forward to yesterday...guess where they are wanting to trial run these plates in the states? Yep...California. lol
1984 brother...1984.
Damn spell check...”enhanced reflectivity”.
I just hope people read Revelation chapter 13.
We’re not there yet, of course.
But the world is well on its way to it.
You don’t need many government officers when you can click a button and apply a computer policy to millions of users at once.
Makes tyranny very efficient.
The people and government are evolving just like the wildlife.
These Liberals are their conservative party, the bunch of Trump-hating Hillarybots that banned guns in the 90s.
This is what happens to a country having no tradition of liberty (or erasing it from the education system), no guns, no free speech, no God, socialized medicine, swamped and ghettoized with culturally foreign immigrants, its productive industries taxed to death, and half the population on welfare. Now there is nothing to stop any intrusion the government decides.
Sad.
Unfortunately the liberal fascists seem to be well on their way to establishing a totalitarian “utopia.” They want to trace where money comes from even for the law abiding citizen.
We just give freedom and privacy away. Just think, electronic money systems can be turned off and can easily be tracked.
How they do things. They set the number high so it doesn’t upset the people. Then they lower it. Not enough to get the public mad. Then all cash transactions are made illegal and there’s no recourse. Once that happens they make inflation happen and skim a percentage off savings accounts.
Takes a few years longer than in a dictatorship but the end result is the same.
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