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A bank does not keep your money in a safe. Cash is a very, very small portion of money. We are mostly just editing numbers in various databases over and over.

I would propose the federal government offer an inalienable electronic money account as a constitutionally guaranteed right.




I get the sentiment but in practice I think many would be against the govt being in possession of their funds given attitudes towards the IRS


Many would do well to already assume the government is in control of their funds. Pretty sure if the government wants to freeze your funds at any financial institution, the financial institution is going to let them. See what happened in Canada.

This is where

> inalienable electronic money account as a constitutionally guaranteed right.

this comes in. It should be impossible to take away someone’s ability to electronically send and receive money.




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