[Hostage]

Except that it gives our ever-more-intrusive federal government a peek at every single purchase made, which as the history of every federal tax system shows WILL be abused.

We can still use cash.

Upshot is that taxation sucks and is subject to take unconstitutional paths without consequence.

That the downside yes, and why we need courts of law with good lawyers and good judges.

[Cowman]

and why we need courts of law with good lawyers and good judges.

I would include an impeachment mechanism for judges so that we can remove them when they start doing things like finding that a farmer that uses the produce of his farm on his farm is influencing interstate commerce.