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 RC> Perhaps as a stipulation for getting Federal Welfare
 RC> payments, the person has to be implanted with a chip, then
 RC> when anyone goes to purchase goods and services, they have
 RC> to let the cashier wave a wand, if a chip is present, the
 RC> transaction details are transmitted to the SSA or IRS or
 RC> HHS. If one is found to have spent above the Federally
 RC> provided assistance, that person gets a knock at the door
 RC> from a suit..

 Of course, if that person was doing the shopping for an elderly
 or disabled neighbor, that would be outrageous.

 And it is possible to work, and make so little as to qualify for
 welfare. You would be discouraging work.

 RC> or

 RC> Same theme as above, but the cashier has to deny the sale..

 IOW, make store cashiers cops?

 When the shopper is buying medicine for her child, with money
 given her by a relative because it's too expensive for her
 benefits to cover, the cashier decides she doesn't get the
 medicine?

 The ultimate stupidity of your suggestion is in the fact that
 welfare is now done by debit cards, so the govt can follow
 without micro-chipping anyone.

 Your thinking leads to micro-chipping anyone the govt suspects
 of any illgal act. They think you are dealing drugs, they chip
 you to monitor your spending.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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