Posted on 07/28/2008 11:30:52 AM PDT by hripka
A freedom-focused grassroots organization has issued a nationwide alert about a plan in Congress that would require credit card companies, eBay, Amazon, Google and other companies to report what you buy to the federal government.
FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey said the privacy implications are "breathtaking."
"This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week," he said. "Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Amazon and Google Checkout," he said.
FreedomWorks said the provision is "hidden deep in Sen. Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation." It was added by the bill's managers without debate and calls for a tracking and reporting system "on nearly every electronic transaction."
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That's what they said about the federal income tax in 1934.
Can I have your car?
You say that like you may think it is a bad thing.
The politicians won't dare make them all toll roads.
It is easier to just have the armed government highwaymen select victims arbitrarily.
That way, the peasants don't get all uppity all at once.
You think Boooosh would veto something that empowers the goobermint at our expense even if he had the power do so? Pffffft.
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