[Hoot Gibson]

The govt. knows everything about you, TRT, that ship sailed years ago thanks to the Patriot Act. 
Why don't we use that same power to stiff those who are stiffing this country?
Aren't these tax evaders criminals like domestic and foreign terrorists?  

What are you buying that you're afraid of people seeing?   

Gee I don't know let me think... a secret desire to punch you in the mouth?

 
stay safe TRT

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This has nothing to do with catching criminals and tax evaders, that is just the rationalization for violating Americans' 4th Amendment rights. The gun control analogy is spot on. Gun crime thrives in the midst of the toughest gun control laws in the country because criminals do not purchase their guns legally.

Long term, the federal government will monetize the data that they collect on private citizens. I am not sure how they will rationalize doing so, but they will come up with a plausible excuse to appeal to liberals who will once again tell us how they "have nothing to hide." The combination of Big Government, Big Tech, and Big Data is one of the biggest threats that this nation faces.

Hoot, let’s stay on point the 10 states with the weakest gun laws have 3 times more gun violence than the 10 states with the strongest gun laws.  I am a gun supporter so let’s not mix messages here.  We are talking about the wealthy dancing around their responsibility.  Do you have a better way? 
Did you agree with the patriot act so we could hunt down Muslim terrorists?  We are now using that for Qanon and right wingers who want to destroy America?  If you did, then you agree with the same efforts of catching financial crooks. 

speculating that our govt will sell our information is ironic considering your idol DJT was elected using private information sold from Facebook to Russian disinformation agencies.

I supported most of the Patriot Act but I would support repealing most of its provisions now. The Patriot Act should never have been used against American citizens for political purposes. I suspect that your stat about gun violence is wrong, but I am not going to spend time fact-checking it so that we can stay on topic as you suggested.

I reject the premise that Democrats want access to all of our financial transactions to catch tax evaders, so my solution is to scrap the bill. I also do not believe that the federal government knows what its shortfall in income tax revenues is and I believe that the purpose of stating an estimated number is to justify the proposed assault on our Fourth Amendment rights. If the federal government knows how much tax revenue is lost to tax evasion, then they can obtain warrants against the evaders and gather evidence against them in a constitutional manner.

Your last statement is not true but even if it were true, then it would not be grounds to support the proposed law. The law would be the digital equivalent to searching door to door for a murder weapon, centered on the location of the corpse, with no warrants. I do not believe that such a law would be found constitutional and cannot understand how any American could support such a proposal.

I’ll have to see more. The US is at red alert level as far as tax evasion is concerned.

Who knows if this proposal  will get anywhere…probably just red meat for progressives.

The US is at a red alert level for tax evasion because Democrats are trying to "pay for" at least $3.5 trillion of new spending. It does not really matter to them that the bill will not result in appreciably reducing tax evasion, what matters is politicians being able to claim that the new spending will be "paid for," when it actually will add to the national debt.