“I know it seems strange, but there was a time, long ago, when whatever money one might have was one’s own business and no business whatsoever of the government.”
ROTFLOL!
that has never been the case in the history of mankind as soon as money was invented a few thousand years ago ... because of a little thing called mandatory taxes ...
Yes, taxes have always been with us, long before money was invented. But how much cash you had was your business as long as you coughed up what was considered ‘your fair share’. Banks weren’t required to report ‘suspicious activity’ until relatively recently.