Taxation is literally extortion.

For 55 years the federal government has required your bank to inform on you, and made it a crime for the bank to tell you it did. Every account watched. Every transfer over a line logged and forwarded. Every deposit a clerk finds unusual written into a report you will never see, sent to an agency you never chose, about money you worked for and already paid tax on. In 1970 the enemy was organized crime. In 2001 it was terrorism. In 2025 it was the border. The enemy is whatever they need to put on television so no one counts the millions of ordinary people swept up in the same net. What it actually does is turn your bank into a branch office of the state. A private company you trusted with your paycheck, deputized to watch you, required to file on you, forbidden from warning you, handing a running ledger of your life to an office that needs no warrant to read it and answers to nobody when it is wrong. The Fourth Amendment was supposed to stand between you and that ledger. A doctrine they invented decided it does not. The day you handed your money to a bank, the courts ruled, you consented to all of it. You cannot live without a bank. They built the machine on a consent no one is free to refuse. They named it the “Bank Secrecy Act.” Ironically, the only secrecy it defends is the government's. The bank cannot tell you it reported you. The agency that ran the program could not tell Congress how many criminals it ever caught. Your secrecy is called suspicious activity, flagged, filed, and forwarded. $59 billion spent. 28.7 million reports filed on Americans. 275 investigations actually tipped off. The system does not fail at catching criminals. Catching criminals was always the cover. The watching was always the product. The threshold sold in 1945 as a high wall around the wealthy has been dragged by inflation down onto everyone. $10,000 bought two new Corvettes in 1970. Today it buys the engine. The wall has not moved in 80 years. They just waited for the dollar to walk everyone into it. Money you worked for, in accounts you opened, watched without a warrant your entire life, and you were never told. Today Cato's @EconWithNick said it straight to House Financial Services. The Bank Secrecy Act is the Bank Surveillance Act. They have known for 55 years and watched you anyway. Do not give them a 56th.

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