[E Pluribus Bellum]

The federal government has always required large personal bank transactions to be reported

This is not true. This intrusive and un-American reporting requirement didn’t start until “conservative” President Reagan instituted it in the early 1980s as part of his war on (some) drugs. That’s also when the militarization of our police started. Doesn’t seem very conservative to me.

[Secret Agent Man]

the morals behind it were conservative

but others used them as cover to promote totalitarianism