{"id":933994,"date":"2021-10-28T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=933994"},"modified":"2021-10-28T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:28:57","slug":"exclusive-rep-drew-ferguson-democrat-plan-for-irs-surveillance-feels-and-sounds-a-lot-like-the-chinese-social-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-drew-ferguson-democrat-plan-for-irs-surveillance-feels-and-sounds-a-lot-like-the-chinese-social-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Rep. Drew Ferguson: Democrat Plan for IRS Surveillance &#039;Feels and Sounds a Lot like the Chinese Social Score&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-drew-ferguson-democrat-plan-for-irs-surveillance-feels-and-sounds-a-lot-like-the-chinese-social-score%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=933994&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Democrat plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/10\/13\/yellen-irs-plan-to-monitor-600-bank-transactions-absolutely-not-spying-theres-a-lot-of-tax-fraud\/\">surveil<\/a> Americans\u2019 bank accounts using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are part of a broader framework to install government controls resembling China\u2019s \u201csocial credit score\u201d system, Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) observed on Thursday\u2019s edition of SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> with special guest host Jerome Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Jessica Yellen recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/10\/13\/yellen-irs-plan-to-monitor-600-bank-transactions-absolutely-not-spying-theres-a-lot-of-tax-fraud\/\">said<\/a> bank transactions valued at $600 or more should be automatically reported to the IRS for surveillance to combat \u201ctax fraud and cheating.\u201d In September, the Biden administration called for Congress to enact legislation forcing banks to report such transactions to the IRS<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18460954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Janet-Yellen.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18460954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Janet-Yellen.jpeg\" alt=\"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (C) listens to President Joe Biden during a hybrid meeting with corporate chief executives and members of his cabinet to discuss the looming federal debt limit in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 06, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (C) listens to President Joe Biden during a meeting on October 06, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019re trying to do is to control every part of your life,\u201d Ferguson said. \u201cThey are looking at your social media posts. They are looking at your finances. They\u2019re going to tie all of this stuff together, and it ultimately feels and sounds a lot like the Chinese social score with the government being in control of every part of your life.&nbsp;If you\u2019re for the party that\u2019s in control, your life is going to be fine. If you agree with big government socialists in your statements \u2014 and your ideas align with them \u2014 and they\u2019ve got control of your bank account, then you\u2019re going to be the one that gets access to credit. If you believe in freedom, and you believe that the Democrats are wrong about what they\u2019re doing, then you\u2019re going to be denied access to credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>He remarked, \u201cAmerica no longer has confidence in the Biden administration. More importantly, [Americans] don\u2019t trust the Biden administration. We\u2019ve seen the moving of goal posts on the variety of issues, and it\u2019s another example of why we cannot let something like an IRS bank surveillance provision pass in a reconciliation bill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ferguson referenced the Fourth Amendment\u2019s protection of Americans against unlawful search and seizure of their property.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12123432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1166233068.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12123432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1166233068.png\" alt=\"Security guards patrol below surveillance cameras on a corner of Tiananmen Square in Beijing on September 6, 2019. - Some Beijing karaoke bars are closing, toy bombs are banned and every delivery package is being scanned: the capital is taking no chances weeks ahead of a massive military parade to mark Communist China&#039;s 70th anniversary. (Photo by GREG BAKER \/ AFP) \/ TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-POLITICS-ANNIVERSARY,FOCUS BY POORNIMA WEERASEKARA (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Security guards patrol below surveillance cameras on a corner of Tiananmen Square in Beijing on September 6, 2019. (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cNumber one, I think at its core it\u2019s unconstitutional,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe money in that bank account is yours. It does not belong to the federal government. The bank account is yours. It does not belong to the federal government, and the federal government cannot search your property without cause. \u2026 T<\/span><span>he same thing applies to your car. It applies to your home. The Democrats want to know what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On October 15, Ferguson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/5586?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%22%5D%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=1\">introduced<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act to counter the Biden administration\u2019s and Democrats\u2019 push to amplify the IRS\u2019s surveillance powers.<\/p>\n<p>He stated, \u201cI think we\u2019re over 170 cosponsors \u2014 Republican cosponsors in the House, I believe that we\u2019ve got 50 senators on the companion bill that the Senator [Tim] Scott dropped on that side of the building, and I have privately had some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say, \u2018Yeah, if this is in the bill, we would be interested in signing on to yours.\u2019 They even know that it\u2019s not right.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"33\">\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat plans to surveil Americans\u2019 bank accounts using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are part of a broader framework to install government controls resembling China\u2019s \u201csocial credit score\u201d system, Rep. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}