[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

This will make it much easier to turn off payments to those who speak out against the government.

Just like a “digital currency” will make it much easier for the Statists to starve those who protest against the State.

[The_Reader_David]

This will make it much easier to turn off payments to those who speak out against the government.

How so? I see no difference in difficulty in flipping the bit in the computer from the value that instructs a check to be printed to the value which instructs no check to be printed, and flipping the bit in a computer from the value that instructs the computer to send an electronic payment to the value that instructs it not to send the payment.

Honestly, when the Feds come up with a money-saving measure, it is churlish to find fault with it simply because the left is in control of the White House, and bizarre to find a specious conspiratorial aspect to it.