Quoted from loneacer:You would want some entity to keep track of every item you ever purchase anywhere? Even if they could do so for a cash garage sale purchase, would you want that invasion of privacy?
Are you doing something so illegal that you care? I mean, we are already tracked for almost everything we buy/sell in some form. I get it, maybe you buy something you are embarrassed to buy, but in 99% of those cases no one who has that information is going to care about that or use it against you. If you are using credit cards - you are tracked. Every receipt even if you pay cash is stored and archived somewhere. All of your data is already in massive databases being sold to advertisers. Do you really think that extra step to save time and money is that much more evil? If you are that concerned, you are in for a shock. Very little you do is not known or tracked by someone.
And for the record, it's not that I am okay with any of it, or want more taxing. Quite the opposite. It's just the reality of the world. Unless you are uber rich and get loopholes, etc, we're just fucked. We are way past being able to fix anything of meaning in any short amount of time and IMO there are a lot more pressing freedom problems in society to worry about.