EXACTLY! They will rule it is legal just like Omamacare and then where will we be?
It could get interesting. What if the SCOTUS ruled that, like Obamacare, government surveillance and databases and dossiers on all citizens are a tax?
This actually has some interesting possibilities, if you think about it. Kind of boggles the mind.
In a manner of speaking, privacy can be thought of as an “intangible asset”, which is still very real, like “business goodwill” is to a business, accounted for right alongside its physical assets. Estimated, of course.
When a business is sold, “personal goodwill” is taxable as a long-term capital gain to the seller (and amortized over 15 years by the buyer).
Once someone invades your privacy, either by invitation, criminally, or via intelligence gathering, you lose part of its value as an asset. So in this case, the SCOTUS could allow the government to levy a tax on it, just like businesses can be assessed and taxed on their good will.
EXACTLY! They will rule it is legal just like Omamacare and then where will we be?
Where will we be?
One hundred percent aware that we have fully become the Soviet Union in all regards.
That is useful information.