You are right. And this law does not say otherwise. It says a record will be made that you paid cash for the car, if you paid $10,000 or more.
That has been the law for years. If someone from the government later asks you why you did, you have several choices: tell them, don't tell them,
ask them why they want to know, ask to talk to a lawyer before responding further. But until someone from the government asks you why....
the 4th Amendment does not apply.
By privacy, I don't mean that no one can see me,
I mean that I am not required to explain my actions, unless I am accused of wrong-doing.
In other words, if someone demands that I explain why I paid cash for that car,
I am justified in telling them to mind their own business.
# 155 by exodus
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To: exodus
"...if someone demands that I explain why I paid cash for that car,
I am justified in telling them to mind their own business."
You are right.
And this law does not say otherwise.
It says a record will be made that you paid cash for the car,
if you paid $10,000 or more. That has been the law for years.
If someone from the government later asks you why you did,
you have several choices: tell them, don't tell them,
ask them why they want to know,
ask to talk to a lawyer before responding further.
"But until someone from the government
asks you why....
the 4th Amendment does not apply."
# 176 by JD86
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You're a lawyer?!
Assume government agents come into my house,
uninvited, without my permission.
They catalog all my possessions,
copy my hard drive, copy my written records,
and then distribute copies of all that
to any government agency that's interested
in seeing my collected personal data.
By your lawyerly reasoning,
that's not a search unless
they ask me to explain myself.