A digital dollar from the U.S. federalreserve could be used to strangle political dissent and monitor citizens’ finances, said Tom Emmer, the GOPMajorityWhip in the House, who is pushing a bill to halt it. jesseahamilton reports
that could be deployed to collect information about citizens’ financial lives.
Emmer – a staunch ally of the crypto industry that he argued “can be very threatening to unelected bureaucrats” – is pushing legislation that woulda central bank digital currency . The Treasury Department has encouraged work on a digital dollar, and the Fed is still in research mode on the project, officials have said as recently as this week.
“Recent actions from the Biden administration make it clear that they’re not only itching to create a digital dollar, but they’re willing to trade Americans’ right to financial privacy for surveillance-style CBDC,” Emmer told an audience at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington. He argued Thursday that a government token could easily be “weaponized into a surveillance tool,” and the U.S. government could “program a CBDC to choke out politically unpopular activity.”
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