Well, why don’t you just openly tell the government how to shut down the few means of surviving this economic apocalypse?
Other things come to mind too.
Take ammunition. Tough to buy. Why? Hoarding for later resale
Right now, iit makes no diff what ammo you buy. Buy it even if you don’t have that caliber gun
You can always trade it for what you want
Blackmarkets exist where governments engage in over-reach.
We could see this decades ago.
Exotic immigration has brought in foreign ways of making money and a different culture in regards to honesty and taxes and complying with the law.
Many of us have seen some pretty incredible new things in businesses as routine as gas stations, such as only being able to accept cash for years, or quick marts with empty shelves for many years, or knowing why home invasions started with Asian business owners.
I’ve spoken with liberals who consider the “black market” to be any untaxed transaction.
“The murky world of cash transactions”. That’s the windup, folks. Here comes the pitch.
As the ruling class has their nose to the grindstone figuring out new revenue streams the populace is finding ways around it. When you tax above what people deem fair this will happen.
I bet the black market of the tax evaders is no where near as large as the black market of the tax spenders: food stamps, medicaid pain drugs...
Craigslist certainly wiped out classified advertising in newspapers. I’m old enough to remember when there were whole sections devoted to job adverts and automobile adverts.
In California, the country’s leading tax-and-spend state, over $6.5 billion in taxes may be lost thanks to the black market.
Oh. All that new age agriculture. Too bad it's not taxable, eh?
Millions of dollars of lost state sales tax opportunity due to restrictive laws will continue to drive more business underground. And the more people who learn how they can profit in an underground black market economy with no records kept, the taxman will suffer the consequences.
The restrictive, and nosy governments have no one to blame but themselves.
I council everyone I can on to avoid taxes. I have friends who do car repairs, haircuts, lawncare, etc.. much of which is under the table.
If I could, I would get foodstamps myself. I am tired of the Gov’t taking my money, and my getting nothing in return - and in fact, treating me like an enemy.
Its my own “cloward-piven” strategy.
Some cool and useful items that hold more than 10 items can be successfully printed using 3-D printing. Hmm.
the amount of untaxed business that occurs on line is staggering.
I use to wonder how the Soviet Union , as bad as it was, continued to function with as much as it had. Black markets is why, that is what kept it floating longer then it should have.
Custom cars/hot rods are mostly cash deals for large amounts!
I bought one for $30k cash.
Selling used stuff you already bought is legal. Private sales to other people are legal too.