If you make the currency 100% digital, it won’t matter if we’re chipped or not. The government then has full control, they don’t need chips, gps or even boarder controls. As if you can’t spend, earn or employ without all monies being transparent, you can’t live/survive here with out being fully ligit, and in full view of the gov.
It would be a relatively cost free way to gain alot of control. No need for big government databases etc. Just control the flow of cash. If you can’t pay your immigrants they won’t come, same with the people that work on the side.
It would solve alot of issues, or at least go some what towards doing so. But in reality it would more likely highlight a shed ton of economic issues, that we (the gov) rely on, like grey immigration and working on the side.
Benifit cheats are a great headline grabber, but in reality offer no great threat to budgets (just fairness), and in some respects help business that rely on cheap labour. It would be nice to actually see a study on the effects of getting rid of “working on the side”, vs the cost of the “benifit cheat” to the tax payer greater than the net positive effects on the economy as a whole allowing cheap labour. Tomorrow the whole country had to “go ligit” how many businesses would go under?
But in the case of fairness, it would level playing field, but on a macro scale do we actually need a level playing field, or is the status quo, actually better for a fragile economy. After all our biggest employer is the service sector, one of the easier ones to more liberal in your hiring policies.
Soon we will all be on a living income off the gov anyhow, so all this will be mute.
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