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Oh please. This is entirely about making things fair by cutting down on people, cheating the tax code. As much as people hate taxes, they are essential for a society to function… it is essentially your way of buying into the privilege of living in a nice society.

I agree, though any unlawful business will become much harder with all transactions being visible to law enforcement.

Which is fine as long as desirable business remains lawful... Until the government decides they don't like something that we do actually want.

We haven't had capitalism for a long time, markets are much to controlled and regulated to fit any reasonable definition.

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

There is nothing capitalistic in surveillance, there is nothing capitalistic about our regulated market.

These are the hallmarks of a socialist regime - and, surprise!, you live in one.