I beg to differ. As long as we're using this for currency, nothing will change. The income tax is only a relief valve for excess monopoly money pumped into circulation by the politicians.
Posted on 04/27/2005 7:59:32 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
"On the other hand, it may make them more interested. You've done something out of your profile."
Yeah, right...my profile...
I'm so boring in my financial transactions that I'm not even interested. I buy and sell a car at least once a year, so that $4k is not out of the ordinary for me.
They aren't interested in my puny little transactions. They're not interested in me at all. And if they do get interested, they'll be bored to tears once they talk to me.
I beg to differ. As long as we're using this for currency, nothing will change. The income tax is only a relief valve for excess monopoly money pumped into circulation by the politicians.
Gap? I thought they were Jordache.... Oh sh!t... (ESC! ESC! ESC!)
Deposits made on the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, fifteen....
"an odd time of the month..."
Please advise what times of the month are not odd. I will confine my banking to those days in the future.
You have a good point. But laws requiring banks to track transactions have been around for years. I haven't been contacted yet.
1) What would the "do"? Take the money?
2) I hope he didn't tell them where the money came from, it's nobody's business. except the governments of course.
Study Faults US Policies on Money Laundering, Terror Funds
Dow Jones Newswires (12/14/04); Walsh, Campion
A new study by former Assistant Treasury Secretary for International Affairs Edwin Truman and Maryland University professor Peter Reuter suggests that lawmakers need to make major improvements to prevent, detect, and punish money-laundering crimes. Noting the fact that those who commit money-laundering crimes in the United States face less than a 5 percent risk of conviction, the study also finds that anti-money laundering regimes have been unsuccessful at combating terrorist financing, despite the fact that the same policy tools can be employed to fight both money laundering and terrorist financing |
Nothing gives a warm fuzzy feeling like knowing that the institutions who are making money on my hard work, investments and deposits while having the ability to secretly screw me over!
This is crap. From personal experience, the government has been abusing the Patriot Act since the very beginning. They are using powers granted for combatting terrorism in order to prosecute domestic crime.
This is not the intent, and this will end up hurting Republicans in the long-term.
The patriot act is only used as a guise to fighting terrorist. If you actually read it in detail the average inoncent american has lost tons of rights, privacy and freedoms.
The fire is very slowly being turned up on Americans sitting in the pot on the kettle.
I'll tell you a funny story about my profile:
A couple of years ago, the California sales tax people decided that my little internet business wasn't paying enough sales taxes. I guess they based that on some profile or another. So, they notified me that they wanted to audit my books for the previous 5 years.
The auditor guy called me to arrange a visit to my place of business, and I said OK. "What do you need to see?" I asked him.
"Your double-entry accounting records," he responded.
I just laughed at him. "Double-entry? I don't even keep single-entry books. I had a total of 557 orders last year. I have all the invoices for them, plus a list of customers, their states, and amount of purchase in a database. How's that?"
Well, he said he'd have to see.
He showed up at my office, where I had assembled the boxes of invoices, the original order forms from the web site, and my printout of all sales for each year under audit.
He took one look at my small stock of items I sell on the web site, the cardboard boxes with the orders and invoices in them, and my puny little 16-page printouts, and laughed.
I gave him a cup of coffee and we talked about fishing for an hour. Then he went away and told me the state wouldn't be bothering me again.
If you don't think the government's real agenda is to squeeze the peons more efficiently, I have a handful of magic beans to sell you.
"Please advise what times of the month are not odd. I will confine my banking to those days in the future.
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If you can divide the date by two and not have a remainder, then that date is even. If not, it's odd. I do so hope that helps.
Did you notice how the RICO is being used against pro-life protestors? And it was created to fight Mafia.
On the other hand, it might make them impose more draconian violations of privacy.
A lot of the drug dealers now do their transactions in gold to avoid banks and financial snooping. Seems to be working.
This is a banking issue, not a tax issue.
Ummm, thanks for playing but not the case at all.... she was there yesterday.....
That's a good story.
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