The 16th Amendment authorizes the government to track and tax income. So yes, the government can totally track transactions over $600.00. You lose again.
Dear
JoeB131
For business accounts where transactions are income related, perhaps.
What causes objections is when personal interactions are audited "assuming these are business until proven otherwise."
That is backwards.
Individual liberties cannot be deprived by govt WITHOUT Due Process.
Where is the Due Process to prove these are business transactions BEFORE govt regulates them.
The laws requiring reporting should only apply to designated Business accounts used for income related transactions.
Govt cannot assume "business until proven to be nonbusiness personal" because after the fact, Govt will have already violated individual protections of liberty and due process.
This is similar to "assuming guilt until proven innocent" which is legally backwards.
If it helps to grasp how critical this concept is of Due Process: you can use it to explain very similar arguments defending individual "substantive due process" from govt enforcement of abortion laws BEFORE proving the person merited deprivation or not.
Legally, a person would have had to completed the legal proceedings before being punished or deprived of liberty. Arguments defending due process, whether gun rights abortion rights or other individual liberty from violation are based on objections to treating law abiding citizens as criminals before due process is conducted to prove guilt or abuses that merit loss of liberty or searches and seizures.
You may not agree with limiting govt in one case, such as with taxation, but when this same line of argument applies to issues where you don't want govt overreaching, suddenly Due Process becomes your friend you want to defend on principle. And Conservatives will have a harder time arguing with you where Due Process is involved. You may want to keep your Due Process rights handy, to use in other cases where it matters to you, and not give these up to Govt to violate.