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Every time I deposit more than $600 cash I’m getting monitored. These fuckers have no clue how we live.
In the 60 Minutes interview, when the interviewer reminded Trump his wealth had increased by $3 billion, Trump immediately shot back "Well, so did everyone's." I dont think they even remember that non-billionaires exist, and if they do they don't consider it important.
We are their livestock. They manage us and farm us.
Okay I hate defending Trump, but cmon, he meant that everyone's wealth increased not that everyone's wealth increased by 3 billion.
The US has over 20 million millionaires in terms of individuals or about 20% of households. That's a damn fifth of the country who would rather see the stock market and property prices go up than the workers' salaries and ability to afford a home.
Even if he simply meant everyone's wealth increased, you must admit this is not true.
To counter 20% millionaires; 66% of Americans would need credit to cover a $400 dollar expense. Approximately 45% of Americans are renters, approximately 49% do not own stocks. The majority of Americans have no wealth to increase.
Edit; I'm a simp
It's not true though, the poor got poorer, the ones in the lower middle stayed the same, only the upper classes got wealthier.
Sure, but in a lot of the cities, starter homes cost a half million dollars.
Also the top 1% is way richer than the top 10%
And there’s an even steeper drop from there.
Not to mention that I’m not sure Trump is capable of understanding that inflation has been killing any gains in wealth the lower half might have made.
You might be happy to learn the $600 deposit reporting was never actually a thing. I totally thought it had passed too, but after searching recently I couldn't find any requirement for banks or credit unions to report anything under 10k. They just fear mongered us into submission with that one.
And that's just the mandated monitoring -- it doesn't include the monitoring that businesses and banks are doing for free, on their own.
I hear rumors that many places are rolling out systems to record and track the serial number of every bill of cash that goes in or out, because they can sell that information to big data collectors who can use it to piece together a picture of where cash flows -- previously the only flow of money they couldn't completely monitor. And, of course, that big data is available to the government at any time, either by buying it or by getting a friendly judge to sign off on sweeping warrants.
That cash thing doesn't surprise me. They need a way to track these people who refuse to use credit cards.
They have plenty of clues. They wrote the damned clues
I thought it's 200, now.