Contributor: How a $200 check can put you on a government watch list
www.latimes.com
New federal surveillance meant to combat cartels and drug traffickers is far more likely to hit everyone else, and to be largely ineffective in fighting crime.
  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    19·
    5 months ago

    THIS is the Small Government I want! Government SO SMALL that you have to Tell Them EVERY PENNY you Spend!

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 months ago

    More than 1 million Californians and Texans are about to face a new level of financial surveillance from the federal government. Although cash transactions over $10,000 have long been reported under current law, now many transactions of as little as $200 will have to be reported in 30 ZIP Codes along the border with Mexico. Financial surveillance in the United States has needed reform, but this policy marks little more than another intrusion into the lives of Americans.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    13·
    5 months ago

    And in addition to friend and family getting on watchlists, this also means that a LOT of businesses are going to start keeping a lot of cash around if they want to keep prices down.