It is among the many prophesies foretold by Don Pendleton in his original Mack Bolan series of the 1970s, of a possible future where organized crime runs the government. In the Bolan saga, he goes to war and massacres them before they can take over. In the real world, they won, because there was no Mack Bolan to shut them down.

I would have to dig up the video, but there is an IRS training video which alludes to them going in to communities that function on a cash basis and trying to work through ways to attack the economies of those communities. You look at the pot growing regions in NorCal, and how the pot money is the economy to a large extent, and mostly on a cash basis. They talk about finding ways to make life difficult on business that is handled day by day in cash not that it would be illegal, but they are not sufficiently encouraging customers to go cashless.

There is also some blame on the bank, but mostly on the government with this. Years ago when I transferred from the California NG to the Oregon NG, someone at the state level in Oregon decided to be a smartass and kept my state of residence for tax purposes as California, so they paid my state withholding to California, while I lived in Oregon, attended drill in Oregon, and took orders from the Oregon state chain of command. Then a yea or so in to it, I get a notice from the "State of Oregon" that I was somehow cheating them out of the withholding taxes. Obviously, I refused to pay them anything, citing it was the "State of Oregon" that screwed the pay anyway (individual servicemembers don't calculate their own withholding unless they are admin, which I wasn't). The second year into it, they ask for money, I tell them to get fucked. They tell me to pay the state of Oregon, but file for a refund from California. I explain that for the pittance I made in the NG, and the losses in income I took every guard weekend not running my business, it got irritating for them to hassle me over chump change while they fucked up the pay. Not only that, but we had a PLT Sgt who always seemed to fuck us up on drill weekends where we missed meals or were stuck out of town miles from a restaurant AND missing meals AND not issued MREs, and yeah well... But I digress. The state got pretty adamant about wanting their couple hundred bucks, I got pretty adamant about telling them to fuck off.

Then one day, I get an overdraft notice from Bank of America. They handed the money in my account over to the state, then overdrafted me, and then on top of that, hit me for a $70 fee for "assistance with seizure action". I closed my account a week later.