“Enable tax evasion” = “Not let the government have 100% viewability of every financial transaction you ever made”? You mean, like cash, a system of payment we have used for over 100 years? We should get rid of that because it “enables tax evasion”?

No thanks, I’d rather live in a world where I can give my friend $5 for buy me some snacks at the store without the government having to get involved. I’d rather not have, at a time when we are experiencing democratic backsliding, my least favorite political party, who happens to be in charge at the moment, be able to see the entirety of the inflows and outflows of the resistance organizations fighting their fascist policies. I’d rather be able to get an abortion and not wonder if my bank is going to snitch on me.

You know who really evades taxes? Those rich fucks who lobby and pay off (or are!) politicians to give them tax loopholes. Or the people in the panama papers. But those aren’t the tax evaders we’re talking about, now are they? Because they’ll never be held accountable to these laws, even though they were doxed publicly as violating them.

These kinds of financial surveillance powers will only be used against plebs, dissidents, and people who the people in power don’t like.