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Your jobs payroll taxes, and your annual 1040 federal tax return, just is not enough.

The Biden administration wants the IRS to document the totals deposited and withdrawn, but not the individual transactions, from personal and business bank accounts annually if more than $600.

In this COVID era, Rahm Emanuels infamous quip about never allowing a serious crisis go to waste echoes throughout the $3.5 to $5 trillion budget bill that seeks more government control.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is leading the charge requiring banks to report cash transactions totaling $600 or more of their account holders. Yellen claimed such reporting would catch tax cheats and disclose opaque income streams that disproportionately accrue to the top.

Tucked away in the bill is $80 billion that would fund an army of IRS auditors to collect what the Treasury Department said would amount to $700 billion over the next decade. Rather than auditors, they should hire folks to answer their telephones.

When the political bureaucracy targets banks, you lose.

This is about total control, and it is working.

Americans complied on endless lockdowns that were to flatten the curve, the ubiquitous mask mandates that continue and now how everyone must be vaccinated.

Why should your bank account be any different?

What could possibly go wrong?

Dr. Anthony Fauci funnels millions of taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. President Joe Biden claims the military never advised him to keep a 2,500 residual force in Afghanistan and that our southern border is secure.

Casting a wide net over personal finances has always been a longstanding ploy of the left. There is no evidence of anything here that could be labeled Build Back Better.

Instead, the left doubles-down.

This scheme is nothing but another privacy breach waiting to happen. Twenty-three state treasurers and auditors signed a letter opposing the legislation describing it as one of the largest infringements of data privacy in our nations history.

Yellen and her leftist allies need to acquaint themselves with the Fourth Amendment that was passed to protect the quintessential American right to be left alone. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

What else about the Constitution does the Biden administration not comprehend?

Granted, since the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, all bank transactions over $10,000 are reported. In actuality, that amount needs to be adjusted for inflation, which would make todays limit $70,000. Congress needs to include that in the legislation but wont.

Leveraging the banking system to track down terrorists is not new, but including you is. Perhaps, such zeal could be employed to find the 40 million here illegally and all the welfare, disability and COVID unemployment fraud circulating nationwide.

Any politician supporting this is oblivious to the concepts of freedom and liberty. Socialism has arrived and this bill will only serve to expand it. This is a power grab to confiscate personal wealth and redistribute it to those whose only work history is running their mouths and playing the victim.

Affording the IRS access to your bank transactions provides them access to snoop into your financial affairs; what church, if any, you support, the charities and political causes you aid, while creating a data profile where your privacy is replaced with surveillance.

Ultimately, politicians will push legislation that regulates how you save and invest.

How soon until the IRS requires your ATM withdrawal receipt and questions where you spent it?

Along with the White House, Democrats own a razor-thin majority in the Congress. Not to be deterred, the left will stop at nothing in their brazen pursuit of power and control.

Who is the menace to freedom and privacy now?

Everyone, including the economy, will be much better off provided this bill does a MacArthur and fades away, forever.

GREGORY MARESCA writes from Northumberland County

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