retrogrouch wrote:
On Sun, 2 May 2010 15:17:38 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote:

I was told this was required, in order to be in compliance with
the Patriot Act.




Well, that's pretty loopy - I can sort of understand if it was just to
guarantee that she'd be able to pay if the check rubberized, but -
Patriot Act? I've never liked the Patriot Act anyway, and I didn't
even know this was in there.

Yecchh.


Yep. Any transactions totaling over $10,000 needs a Patriot Act
report. My DENTIST is having to file these.



The dictates of the Washington regime have, with the wildly misnamed
"Patriot Act," finally taken away _all_ of our financial privacy,
which is a fundamental part of our personal privacy.

We have now reached the _end_ of the slippery slope which was begun
when the Income Tax amendment was fraudulently imposed on the
American people. (Fraudulently? Yes. It was sold to the people under
the pretense that the proposed tax would never be imposed on wages,
and would never need to exceed three per cent. even on the incomes
of millionaires. We were told that wages, being an equal exchange of
time and labor for an equivalent amount of money, did not result in
profit and therefore were _not_ income and would therefore never be
taxed. All these assurances were lies.)

That was the beginning of the pernicious concepts 1) that the
criminals in Washington had the right to _know_ what your "income"
was, and 2) that the criminals in Washington had the right to take
whatever percentage of that "income" they so chose. Both concepts
are utterly alien to any reasonable conception of freedom and to the
ideals of the founders.


With every good wish,


Kevin Alfred Strom.
--
http://kevinalfredstrom.com/