US Presidential Candidate Opposes Fed’s CBDC Plans
US presidential candidate opposes Fed’s CBDC plans and says that it will pave the way for banning and seizing Bitcoin. Check out the latest reports about this below. US presidential candidate opposes Fed’s CBDC It’s been...
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US presidential candidate opposes Fed’s CBDC plans and says that it will pave the way for banning and seizing Bitcoin. Check out the latest reports about this below.
US presidential candidate opposes Fed’s CBDCIt’s been just reported that the candidate for the US Presidency is opposing the Federal Reserve’s plan to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC), saying that it could ultimately lead down a path where the government seizes Bitcoin (BTC).
In a lengthy message, Robert F. Kennedy, who recently announced that he is running in the 2024 presidential campaign as a Democrat, says that the government’s plans for a CDBC “grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny.”
He said that the lack of anonymity associated with CBDCs is a grave danger that would allow the government to expand its authority and intrude into people’s lives.
“While cash transactions are anonymous, a CBDC will allow the government to surveil all our private financial affairs. The central bank will have the power to enforce dollar limits on our transactions restricting where you can send money, where you can spend it, and when money expires.”
He continued and said the following:
“A CBDC tied to digital ID and social credit score will allow the government to freeze your assets or limit your spending to approved vendors if you fail to comply with arbitrary diktats, i.e. vaccine mandates.”
Kennedy also said the fact that a CDBC would eventually pave the way for the state to start banning and seizing BTC, just like they did with gold in the 1930s.
“The Fed will initially limit its CBDC to interbank transactions but we should not be blind to the obvious danger that this is the first step in banning and seizing bitcoin as the Treasury did with gold 90 years ago today in 1933.”
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