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You've kind of hit the nail on the head. Money laundering is illegal because the only time you need to launder money is when that money was obtained through ill
by bena 5y ago
You've kind of hit the nail on the head. Money laundering is illegal because the only time you need to launder money is when that money was obtained through illegal or fraudulent means. Because you launder money so the government is aware of the money, but not where it originated from. If you obtained the money legally, "laundering" it is just you willingly choosing to lose money.
It's kind of why there is also a way for you to claim illegally obtained income on your tax form as well.
They may not have proof you committed the crime, but they have proof you tried to hide the crime. So if you make that a crime as well, you get them anyway. The goal isn't to be accurate, the goal is to stop criminals.
Also, by knowingly helping someone launder money, you are kind of aiding them in their crimes. So it's a way to get accomplices as well.
- nybble41 5y ago> The goal isn't to be accurate, the goal is to stop criminals. The prime identifying characteristic of a police state.
- Mouse47 5y agoYawn. Let's bring the theatrics down a notch
- nybble41 5y agoNo theatrics, just facts.
- bena 5y agoLet me clarify: the goal isn't to charge a criminal with the exact crime they've committed, the goal is to make everything necessary to committing crimes also illegal so they can get the criminal on something.
- nybble41 5y agoSame thing. You're punishing people whom you haven't convicted of doing anything harmful just to make the police's job easier, without regard for justice or proportionality. That is how a police state operates.
- bena 5y agoIt's entirely with regard for justice. That's the goal. You're looking for ways to evade justice. It's evident in your choice of words. You're concerned with conviction of something harmful. The harm they committed was in the other crimes. They should evade punishment for that because they managed to hide it well?
- nybble41 5y ago> It's entirely with regard for justice. That's the goal. Your ends may be laudable but your means are immoral. The ends do not justify the means. > You're concerned with conviction of something harmful. The harm they committed was in the other crimes. They should evade punishment for that because they managed to hide it well? You say they're evading punishment "because they managed to hide it well" but the fact remains that you were never able to prove they actually did anything worthy of being punished for in the first place. Don't you see the obvious error in that? The only thing you actually know is that their financial transactions were not documented to your satisfaction. In effect you're demanding that they prove their innocence, whereas in a just system one is innocent until proven guilty.