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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
not really, at least not as easy as you would think.
say I have been saving money for years, just not in the bank. Should I be found with that money years later, i'll be suspected of drug trafficking and have no real way of showing that money rightfully belongs to me.
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Absolutely not.
You simply show that you were employed. If you had a salary of say $50,000 over ten years, and you had a suitcase full of $1,000,000 then something is amiss. If you had a suitcase full of... say, $60,000 then you could be OK; its entirely possible you saved $1,000 a month for five years.
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This is yet one more step in the slippery slope of the citizens becoming servants of the government instead of the other way around.
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Well, to be honest, I'm in two minds. If it's just a judge deciding this on their own, then I would have a problem with it. If it's due process, following established legislation enacted by the elected representatives of the people (ie, Parliament or Congress in the US I believe), then I have no problem with it.
Mr Mephisto