Re: Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

[Jim Choate]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, reject wrote:

> Obviously, assorted FedGoons(tm) dislike untraceable money.  Nasty
> terrorists, child pornographers, drug dealers, and other horsemen could
> hide their "profits" then...
> 
> But is there a *legitimate* reason to have anti-money-laundering laws?  I
> can't think of any, but perhaps I'm being naive.

This begs the question. Poor logic.

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