RE: Why Tax FUD actually benefits the Cause of Crypto HODL’ers

I like @zoidsoft’s idealism but I feel I would be remiss if I didn’t present the counter-argument. I wrote the following in a discussion with him at my other blog to which he is referring to:

You’re making the assumption that strength-through-numbers will overcome. That’s the American “can do” attitude which I admire. Yet there are signs that the Western countries are devolving into police states. I would be remiss if I didn’t play devil’s advocate and present the other side which is a potentially darker outcome.

I think you might be far too optimistic and I think it would wiser for users to move to replacement systems that don’t have the flaws in Steem which cause users to incriminate themselves. However, whether it is plausible for such as systems to come into existence and be as compelling is not known at this time.

You presume that the IRS has to actually conduct an audit in order to assign a tax due. In totalitarianism they simply declare what you owe and you have no recourse whatsoever. They can justify it as a necessary efficiency because there are so many people snubbing compliance.

Our masters have always been willing to put boots on the throats of millions in order to maintain control over the power vacuum of democracy. They did 9/11. Do you really think they will allow a million nerds with crypto tokens stop them?

Never has it been the case that we-the-people can self-organize. We-the-people are always falling to divide-and-conquer. We even see this happening on Steem, where I have documented the corruption and intentionally flawed design that enables whales to rape the system.

You are encouraging everyone to not worry (while also giving a caveat that some may fall through the cracks) because you know some workers within the IRS. But the underlings don’t make the decisions about how this is all going to come down on humanity. On one hand, I like spreading encouragement. OTOH, I think it’s prudent to be frank with readers as to the range of possibilities.

The SJWs, leftists, and socialists which dominate the politics of the West don’t want to allow taxation to stop because that is one of their weapons against those who they want to control and that is the bargain they’ve made with the devil so as to receive their funding. For example, George Soros funds a $billion into leftist agendas which means bribessalaries into pockets of leftists.

Because really if they allow us to succeed, and they have their government print dollars instead of maintaining control over all of us, then their dollars become as worthless as they are. IOW, more than half of the population seems to be invested In T̶h̶e̶f̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶M̶a̶s̶s̶a̶c̶r̶e̶s̶ᵀʳᵃⁿˢᵖᵃʳᵉⁿᶜʸ We Trust.

As when the economy turns down hard as the West is going to be totally destroyed by it’s bankrupted pension and unfunded liabilities to boomers, whilst shiny and lean Asia steamrolls the West, then people get angry and bitter. And then it is very easy for the-powers-that-be to turn that into chaos, war, and the collapse of rule-of-law and sanity. IOW, when everyone is going down, the people are much less able to embrace some sort of sane solution that doesn’t unfairly obliterate a million people. When the people are bitter and destroyed by economic devastation, it’s time for war and megadeath. This pattern seems to repeat throughout human history.

If totalitarianism takes hold as it did with Germany’s devolution into the socialist Wiemar Republic that ended up as Hitler’s police state, then the government may not care at all if they have to throw millions into jail (concentration camps). That is the dark outcome. I am not saying it will happen, but given how crazy the politics is getting in the U.S.A., I think it is possible the society could become sufficiently polarized to do very evil things to each other. This is why I blog so much about how we the people shouldn’t allow ourselves to be divided by political ideology. We end up destroying each other and handing all the power to the bastards who foist these enslavement mechanisms on us such as the completely unnecessary income tax. I think basically humans are too stupid to stop falling for this manipulation. I write very detailed blogs explaining the power vacuum and only a very few people are interested enough to upvote them.

It’s already the case that the IRS can cancel your passport (and other nasties) if they unilaterally decide you owe them more than $50,000 in past due taxes.

Also the FBAR reporting requirements may somehow be deemed to apply to our wallets and we suddenly have massive fines and jail time.

And then there’s 20 year prison for those Americans who are accepting funds that are not AML/KYC compliant and the fact the no one on Steem knows where all their rewards are coming from. One can argue they come only from the blockchain as minted supply, but the upvoting is what causes the rewards to be targeted and the former interpretation opens a huge hole for money laundering.

The powers-that-be are moving us into a world where no money can move without being AML/KYC compliant. That was ostensibly one of the main reasons they perpetrated 9/11 as the Patriot Act quickly followed as a result. And I think they full well intend to destroy any groups which oppose them. And I don’t think they will hesitate to do more megadeath and concentration camps in order to reach their goals.

They created Hitler to get their Zionist state. Now they are preparing to make their next be move on enslaving humanity. They create as much war as necessary to pound humanity’s flesh and will into submission.