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Originally Posted by RummyBoy
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Nothing stops terrorism. Or crime. The measures are always aimed at reducing it.
Why are you worried about the Government seeing your financial records?
Your logic could be applied to police on the street. If "No One" haven't committed a crime, why are they there?
Criminals are still
free to commit crimes. The problem for them is having police able to see them doing it, or trace them afterwards. I can still transfer money abroad, or receive money via transfers.
Of course the flaw in your logic is this.
SWIFT is for wire transactions and terrorism doesn't even utilize it much and where it does, they will just switch.
How do you know what criminals do?
As for switching, the funds are often in millions. You can apply that logic to criminals using gloves to beat finger prints.
I suspect you have a point. Part of this is to catch people not paying the right amount of tax. Do you think bank accounts should be like those in the Caymans or Switzerland. To protect tax dodgers privacy?