In God We Trust: Everybody Else, Cash Only

Dad29 suggests that the DOJ aims to destroy the ability of ammunition manufacturers, among 30 types of worrisome businesses, to operate except on a cash-only basis. That's surprising if the goal is, as the DOJ says it is, better oversight of these allegedly-worrisome industries. Generally electronic transactions leave better records. The reason to force banks to stop dealing with them can't, then, be that it would enable better oversight.

It might be a desire to destroy the business, or the industry.

UPDATE: The Sage of Knoxville on the same topic. For some reason he prefers to describe it in terms of a war on pornography, though he notes that 30 different types of businesses are being targeted. (Perhaps he thinks that Americans won't care about ammunition sales in the same way they care about access to porn.)

3 comments:

DL Sly said...

Perhaps he thinks that Americans won't care about ammunition sales in the same way they care about access to porn.

Sadly, for a big majority of LIV's, that may very well be true.

douglas said...

Maybe we should all go cash only as a protest, and starve the beast of taxes while we're at it.

Grim said...

I've been trying to do that for some years, to the greatest possible degree.