Banning cash and NEGATIVE interst rates.

Better than tax, convert all private land into government property with 99 years lease (in Singapore), or 50-70 years lease like in China. After you paid for your mortgage all your life, the property reverts back to the government.
 
sgbuyer said:
Better than tax, convert all private land into government property with 99 years lease (in Singapore), or 50-70 years lease like in China. After you paid for your mortgage all your life, the property reverts back to the government.
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It is that way everywhere. Land purchasing and ownership is the biggest scam of all time. Government owns all land. Always have, always will. The only way it changes ownership is if a new government conquers the old one... then it becomes property of the new govt.

"Real Estate" literally means "royal estate." It's not yours. Doesn't matter how much you paid or how long land has been in your family.

When you "own" land, you basically just take control it. If you actually owned it, you'd collect the taxes on it. Instead, you pay taxes on it in exchange for controlling its use (farming, renting out apartments built on the land, living in a house on the land, building and running a business on the land, etc). Never make the mistake of thinking you actually own it, though. All you can do is pay taxes to keep it or transfer your controlling interest to others. The ownership never changes.
 
Why would anyone hoard physical cash or any ancient relic when you can just stored it in your phone like bitcoin?
 
Australia's Liberal Party government has announced that it will soon be illegal to purchase anything over $10,000 with cash. The government says it's "encouraging the transition to a digital society" and cracking down on tax evasion. But not everyone is happy with the move.
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The ban starts on 1 July 2019 and any payment over $10,000 will have to be made by check or credit/debit card. The government will enforce the measure by allocating roughly $300 million for what it calls the Black Economy Standing Taskforce. ...
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Australians have a strange relationship with cash - strange in the sense that they still use it. Roughly 37 per cent of all commercial transactions in Australia are made using cash. That number is just 32 per cent in the US and 15 per cent in Sweden. Many Swedes are angry about its slow move to a cashless society, arguing that going completely digital causes security concerns. And India began phasing out a whopping 86 per cent of its currency in November of 2016 by invalidating ₹500 and ₹1000 notes as legal tender.
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Today it's any sum over $10,000 in Australia, but anyone with their eyes open can see where this is going. ...
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https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/...l-purchases-over-10000-starting-july-of-2019/

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San Francisco officials voted Tuesday to require brick-and-mortar retailers to take cash as payment, joining Philadelphia and New Jersey in banning a growing paperless practice that critics say discriminates against low-income people who may not have access to credit cards.
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https://apnews.com/e4e95476e4e74756b3973ed23fa3b00e
 
That AP News article is a turn up for the books.

In the article it notes...

"According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 17 percent of African American households and 15 percent of Latino households had no bank account."......now that is a high number.

Question: do they not have an account due to illegal activities or because they are illegal immigrants?
 
Most likely because they are poor. They "bank" through payday loan / cash advance businesses.
 
There is a basic reason to ban cash that is self-evident, to try and capture all tax dollars. With cash, it is possible for people to work off the books and evade paying income tax. If cash is banned, it would require some type of account to buy or sell. Folks without such accounts would soon get them or be left out. The gov would probably give sheep some "free credits" or such when they sign up. You know sheep will do anything for a free credit or such.

If every dollar you earn or spend is tracked, not only will it avoid tax cheating (with the use of cash), it also gives big brother the ability to spy on what you buy. Wow, kind of sounds like the biblical number of the beast prediction from a few years back?

The elites have been conditioning folks to not use cash for years, by pushing the use of debit cards, credit cards, and now smart phones that can pay for stuff. I bet many folks don't carry cash anymore, ever. Personally, I don't even own a debit card. I use my credit card sparingly. I use checks to pay bills. Why let the banks get a 3-4% profit off of every transaction I do?

As a small business owner (services industry), I refuse to take credit or debit cards. I take personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders instead (or cash if they wish). I can clear checks quickly before any work begins to make sure the funds are there, I can forgo a tithing to the banks for facilitating the transaction, and I never worry about charge backs or being held hostage by the credit card bank if the customer tries to start trouble later.

I guess if they ban cash people can try and barter to evade taxes, such as paying your gardener with silver coins or something like that? Eventually all countries (modern ones) will ban cash. They will have some type of tracking system like Bitcoin, etc. I predict such a move in the US would be after some giant calamity where folks are desperate and willing to make concessions because they need to eat, etc. Maybe a mega ton financial crash or something worse?
 
@Oddjob - here's a link to the FDIC itself with their bi-annual household surveys from 2017-2009: https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/

The 2017 Executive Summary link is pretty informative.

Reasons Households Were Unbanked

As in previous years, the 2017 survey asked unbanked households about the reasons why they did not have a bank account. Findings are similar to those reported in previous years.

• More than half (52.7 percent) of unbanked households cited “Do not have enough money to keep in an account” as a reason for not having an account, the most commonly cited reason. This reason was also the most commonly cited main reason for not having an account (34.0 percent).
• Almost one-third (30.2 percent) of unbanked households cited “Don’t trust banks” as a reason for not having an account, the second-most commonly cited reason. This reason was also the second-most commonly cited main reason (12.6 percent).
• As in previous years, higher proportions of unbanked households that previously had an account cited “Bank account fees are too high” (29.9 percent) or “Bank account fees are unpredictable” (24.9 percent) in 2017, compared with unbanked households that never had an account (21.1 and 17.0 percent, respectively).
• Higher proportions of unbanked households that were not at all likely or not very likely to open a bank account in the next 12 months cited “Don’t trust banks” (36.2 and 31.5 percent, respectively) in 2017, compared with unbanked households that were somewhat likely or very likely to open a bank account in the next 12 months (24.7 and 21.0 percent, respectively).
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pmbug said:
@Oddjob - here's a link to the FDIC itself with their bi-annual household surveys from 2017-2009: https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/

The 2017 Executive Summary link is pretty informative.
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One reason some folks don't have bank accounts, and what won't be mentioned in such a report, is that many people have outstanding judgments against them. If they have an identifiable account someplace, the creditor can grab the money. There are also IRS liens and other gov "grabs" that can seize the money in your account. So if you are any sort of deadbeat, having a bank account is bad for you.

If you get paid in cash (or in exempt from creditor gov freebies), you don't need an account.
 
Jim, in Australia we are almost totally already there as to what you are saying. Cash was phased out for salary payments way back in the 90's, (in my work anyway). Most people get paid by electronic bank transfers. I have not written a cheque in 20 years and have not received one in 5 years. Funny enough it was our "FED" Reserve Bank the drew it but that's gone too now. Our Tax refunds go straight into our account. Proceeds from real estate sales and even inheritances are paid by bank transfers these days. When I see a Doctor the Medicare rebate goes into our bank account. I can't think the of the last time I received cash for anything. However I did pay for a f2f silver buy last year, which required me to do a ATM withdrawal.

You are right to say that the Government just want their slice of the tax money and it is about control. The only thing we can do is just be honest because here in Australia as in the USA the government knows everything about your financial movements. When I lodge my tax return my tax agent has the print out from the Tax Office right in front of him. The only way to go is to be truthful and honest and pay your taxes because they will come looking for you if you don't. And yes I carry cash a bit of cash but these days as a back up emergency but don't use it. Everything goes on my credit card, just tap and go a quick 2 second transaction and at the end of the Month an automatic full payment is withdrawn from my bank account. The new world we live in.
 
pmbug said:
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/...l-purchases-over-10000-starting-july-of-2019/
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The start date for that has been delayed, I wrote about it in this week's market update https://www.abcbullion.com.au/investor-centre/pdf/china-buys-gold-as-trade-wars-escalate including a recent IMF "guide" for central bankers on how to make deep negative interest rates happen, which has to involve repression of physical cash usage:

In additional to setting a lower exchange rate between paper and digital currency (e.g. when depositing $100 cash in a bank, you only get $98 credit to your account), which is the IMF’s preferred approach, they discuss other methods of enforcing negative interest rates including:
  • Cash withdrawal limits or limits on cash deposits
  • Purposely keeping low inventory of cash in bank branches
  • Banning storage of paper currency as a business
  • Putting restrictions on flows of paper currency in and out of the country
  • Retiring large denomination notes
  • Abolishing paper currency outright
 
bron.suchecki said:
The start date for that has been delayed, I wrote about it in this week's market update https://www.abcbullion.com.au/investor-centre/pdf/china-buys-gold-as-trade-wars-escalate including a recent IMF "guide" for central bankers on how to make deep negative interest rates happen, which has to involve repression of physical cash usage:

In additional to setting a lower exchange rate between paper and digital currency (e.g. when depositing $100 cash in a bank, you only get $98 credit to your account), which is the IMF’s preferred approach, they discuss other methods of enforcing negative interest rates including:
  • Cash withdrawal limits or limits on cash deposits
  • Purposely keeping low inventory of cash in bank branches
  • Banning storage of paper currency as a business
  • Putting restrictions on flows of paper currency in and out of the country
  • Retiring large denomination notes
  • Abolishing paper currency outright
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ER, excusame Bron, It sounds a bit like THEFT to me.
It also sounds like something ADOLPH HITLER would have done.
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Fascists tend not just to have power, but to have absolute power to STEAL from their subjects.

What does this make the people who are proposing this CR@P?
p.s. It starts with F & ends with S.
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Did I really post 3 jpegs? I need to lay off the P!$$.
Mr. Moderator, can you get rid of two of them please?
 
Here's some more evidence for the move to a cashless society. Most Aussie banks are getting rid of some of their ATM's.:eek:

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has quietly purged 1943 automatic teller machines (ATMs) from its once sprawling Australian network over the past year, turbocharging a wider push across retail institutions to ditch expensive cash machines and slash costs.

More Here: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nab-purges-almost-2000-atms-524900
 
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