If you don't handle your bank deposits and withdraw's in a certain way, today you can be penalized in the form of imprisonment. And, your entire bank balance can be stolen from you, or confiscated. If you happen to transfer an amount over $10,000 you will be reported by your bank to law enforcement as a "criminal suspect" for nothing more then having and moving $10,000. If you transfer your funds in smaller amounts, you can be accused of trying to avoid this $10,000 reporting rule, you can be imprisoned, and your bank account can be confiscated because you transferred amounts less then $10,000 at a time, and that's been defined by your government as money laundering, a crime.
This is real, and they are actually confiscating property when they think that you have too much, prosecuting you when you don't have enough, all for normal things that citizens do with their money everyday have been arbitrarily classified as crimes. And, whenever crimes are involved, confiscation and prosecution's are right behind. Criminalization of your harmless behavior is a favorite pass-time of your elected officials and public servants. Your personal management of your personal property whether it's your land, money, your car or your credit card has been "regulated" by tens of thousands of laws. And, they don't teach those "laws" in schools. They don't provide easy access to those "laws" online, but yet they tell you that your ignorance of those 10's of thousands of laws is no excuse for violating them.
Prosecutors like to brag, because there are so many laws, that they can prosecute almost any American on 3 crimes per day and at any given moment they wish. I promise you, that you are not compliant with the law, no matter how studious you are about your activities. I promise you that you are a "criminal" according to our current legal framework. And, this is what so many people have a hard time believing. If you are charged with a crime within the United States, you are five times more likely to be convicted and imprisoned for that crime then in any other country, in the world. You can point out any authoritarian "police state" warlord - dictatorship on the face of the planet, and the U.S.A. has more people Per Capita in prisons than in any other country. Five times more on average. The United States is the largest prison capitol of the world with 5% of the worlds population, and 25% of the worlds population, prisoners. So this non-sense of the United States being the most free and having democracy is what propagandaists call the biggest lie. The United States is neither free or open. So, how have we lost so many of our freedoms?