Currency and Crime
It has been said that “Money is the root of all Evil”. Well, perhaps that can be said for cash currency, or any instrument of guaranteed value. Cash can be used to purchase illegal services, contraband, exchanged for stolen goods, are paid out in bribery, or given to Republicans as campaign contributions. Indeed, there is no Evil in Civilization that cannot be cut off if the flow of Cash could be stopped. Cash is the lifeblood of Corruption.
We could go to registering each and every purchase by the exclusive use of E-Cash – Electronic Currency. Like using a Credit Card for everything.
This would wipe out all Crime, but then our Politicians would have to finally decide what really is Criminal. Now we have all sorts of laws against some fairly popular activities, goods and services which I can’t really believe that the Politicians would want to actually disappear, but have made them ‘Illegal’ simply so government could effectively give Ad Hoc Licensing to through the mechanisms of Corruption and Payoffs. For instance, a great percentage of revenues from Drugs, Gambling and Gaming and Prostitution circle back to the Law Enforcement and the Political Communities. All of that unregistered Money makes a perfect fit for Corruption. And didn’t Congressional Committees find out for a fact that the CIA was funding its Right Wing Death Squads with money from its own Drug Trade and contraband Weapons Trafficking.
So, our Governments need to get serious about what it believes should really be permanently stopped, and what behaviors, goods, and services should actually be eradicated. Then Governments should demand all Cash to be ‘cashed in’ and replaced with a Universal System of E-Cash where every transaction will be registered. It would certainly simplify Taxation.
I suspect that when Government Corruption is made to be effectively impossible, that there will suddenly be no real will or impetus for many of the Blue Laws now on the Books. However, will Politicians be able to find the Political Means to repeal such Blue Laws? What Politician would lend his name to a Bill that would legalize everything that so much propaganda had previously been pushed forward to demonize? And yet, we cannot imagine that such huge markets for contraband goods and services, that had previously been allowed for by either Corruption of Neglect, should suddenly be allowed to completely dry up, not without expecting some momentous consequences as a result.
And then there is the matter of how the United States will decide to fund its CIA when once Drugs, Prostitution, and Child Trafficking is prevented.
