“They want complete control and the ability to track and tax every purchase.”
Give it a little time for the sheeple to accept that Big Brother knows best, and they’ll start preventing people from making certain purchases. The move will probably be cheered by many people. The initial bans will be labeled as “common sense” moves. If a person owns a vehicle, but misses a car insurance payment, their money card will stop working at the gas pump. Once everybody is forced to into some sort of so-called healthcare plan (oh, wait...) insurers will demand that certain items can’t be bought by people supposedly prone to certain illnesses. It will all be labeled as “for the common good”. Some ‘gang’ of politicians will hail it as a “bold move” to finally win the battle against some long running problem, such as, the war on drugs, which ironically will also be one of the reasons a cashless society will be delayed; certain elements of the ‘shadow government’ depend upon the billions raised every year in the illegal drug market to fund their operations.