Depending on how it is used, my answer is "possibly". Put yourself back in the days of Joseph McCarthy and the "red scare", but with today's laws (and hopefull

Depending on how it is used, my answer is "possibly". Put yourself back in the days of Joseph McCarthy and the "red scare", but with today's laws (and hopefully we seek an outcome that is MORE friendly to free speech, not less). How would you feel about a law that required anyone supporting communism to register as a foreign agent? Or more precisely, one that allowed the government to arrest anyone who argued in favor of communism (a right protected by free speech) and force them to prove they do not have any ties to any foreign government at risk of imprisonment for 2 years. I have little problem asking those actually employed by a foreign government to register. But if you stretch the definitions far enough ("you were eligible for a tax deduction, which counts as compensation so you are employed") then it can be abused.