Jordon Hayes writes:

From thug@phantom.com Sun Feb 28 10:48:57 1993

For instance, can I walk into a U.S. bank, present false ID, and obtain a checking account to use for legitimate reasons?

Banking and Tax regulations provide solid legal ground for requiring banks to verify identity and Tax status in the US. Answer: no. By definition, there are no "legitimate" reasons for having a checking account in this country that is unaccountable. There are plenty of other ways of hiding cash and money transactions without involving the US banking system. They don't want you to do this ...

Yes, I know they don't want me to do this because they don't respect my privacy. Not because I am doing anything illegal. If I pay my taxes on the money, I should be allowed to stash it anywhere I fucking please.

I'm not stealing any money/products/services from anybody, I'm only using a pseudonym.

No, you're just avoiding the accountability of your money. This is akin to not reporting income. It's patently illegal. You can stand down your color PostScript printer now ...

I never said the checking account would be used for tax evasion. Assuming, I pay taxes on all my income, I don't see why it should be illegal to deposit it in a checking account under, let us say, my dogs name. Hell, there are these old ladies who die and leave all their money to their cats, right? So I assume the cats must have somekind of bank accounts / trusts. What if I want to set up a bank account for my dog? I don't see why that should be illegal. I mean if it's a problem with setting up accounts under non-existant people's identities, one could always use the family pet as the bank account holder. Thug