Posted on 04/23/2022 6:18:09 AM PDT by hardspunned
Like many people in Shanghai, Joyce has spent weeks shut at home since the latest Covid-19 lockdown was imposed on March 28. The software industry executive, who asked to be identified only by her first name to avoid attention from the authorities, says she has suffered from food shortages, and the compound where she lives has resorted to “group buying,” where different individuals are responsible for sourcing as much of a certain product as possible for the community. “A lot of people are struggling with being confined at home, because they have literally no income,” she says. Group purchases “are three to four or five times more expensive than the normal days, and Shanghai is not cheap.”
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To say “Shanghai is not cheap” is the understatement of the month.
If Mayor Pete was there, the Supply Chain Crisis would be solved immediately!
Whatever the ChiComs intend to do, it will involve threats, force and fear. It’s all they know.
Around the world, the Lockdowns are a great way for governments to consume people’s savings. Soon, you will have to work for Them, as you’ll have nothing left.
He’d be the number one electric car salesman in all of China.
When leftist countries seized private property, they didn’t have a virus to throw in the kulaks faces. “You don’t want people to die, do you?”
My Venezuelan friend had money in an account. Authorities determined since it was excess, she didn’t need it and they took it.
“My Venezuelan friend had money in an account. Authorities determined since it was excess, she didn’t need it and they took it.”
Sort of like what the government does here with asset forfeiture. If you have $10,000 in cash in your own and the IRS finds out about it they will come to your house and confiscate the money. Don’t doubt me on that they have done it. Just like the police will do if they find cash in your car. There is no good reason for you to have that much cash we’re taking it
How is that even possible? If you don’t owe the IRS money, then they have no right to confiscate it. Your statement implies someone would have to come into your home to search for it. With the amount of guns in this country, it would be a suicide mission. 🤣
It’s asset forfeiture. And it is legal. Large amounts of cash give the government the right to take it and demand that you prove you acquired it legally.
Cases where cash you have in your home is confiscated is less common because they have to know you have it. Take $20k in cash from your bank account and the bank reports it - which they will now do - and the feds can get a warrant and take it.
If you are pulled over and for some reason your car is searched, it is legal for the cops to take your cash because the cash alone is considered proof of criminal activity.
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