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Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs by mcphage on Friday November 13, 2015 @11:46AM (#10560757)
> If you pull over 100 people with large amounts of cash, what percentage obtained it illegally? If it's greater than 50%, then you can always seize the cash under that standard.

That's an interesting question, but it's not obviously greater than 50%. Honestly, I don't think it's higher than 50% at all, but certainly it isn't so clearly higher that it should be accepted without evidence.

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Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs by soylentcola on Friday November 13, 2015 @12:36PM (#10561086)
Not only that, but just because it's currently popular to pay with plastic or some other form of electronic transfer, it shouldn't "criminalize" cash.

I'm not a conspiracy nut but I can certainly see how someone who is could view this as an effort to legally coerce citizens into using only traceable methods of payment approved by commercial processors under the implication that something like cash or bitcoin would only be used by those trying to hide something.

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