Perhaps Cash is King
December 3rd, 2012 - 5:05 am
Another reason to use cash: Tax Hitman to Track Your Spending:
Up to two million people are to have their credit files secretly checked under a crackdown on tax evasion to be unveiled by George Osborne to help raise another £10 billion.
I have always thought that the push to get rid of cash was in order to do give the government more ways to track your spending habits and invade citizen’s privacy. Since the US seems to be turning into Europe, I won’t be surprised to see this happening here in the near future.
Every time I hear one of the “Lifelock” commercials, I think the same thing. I use cash in almost all my discretionary purchases. So when they say, people can get your info; I think that those 20′s, 50′s and 100′s I use must have some sort of chip in them. LOL
Since I’m stuck with direct-deposit paycheck, I just pause @ bank’s own ATM and Pass Go periodically. Mayhap the solution is to find some way out of the money-based economy. Galt, anyone?
This is the reality of life in a police state: If they want you jailed — or dead — they can fake any “evidence” they need. It’s not wrong to be wary of evil, the error is supposing that evil requires surveillance. It doesn’t.
In these …. post-American times, it is an act of patriotism to ask if there is a discount for cash in a transaction, and similarly to offer such a discount. Anything that makes the beast less well fed is patriotic.
Subotai Bahadur
These posts go along with something I have been thinking, how to live surrounded by moochers in America. Going cash makes sense in this context, so does increasing self-sufficiency and firearm readiness. What are the rest of you doing to accomodate post-American development?
Trey