It’s easy to not see things when your livelihood depends on not seeing them.

yes... non-surveilled money transactions ALLOWS for all these drug trades and money laundering and guns blah-blah, so we shouldn't have it.

Unlike, I dunno kitchen knives, there's no downside since regular people don't suffer from a ban on cash (whereas they would from banned knives or banning cars etc).

How's that for a strongman?

This is what my wife says every time I mention someone using this line of argument. Its lazy and dumb to anyone that is thinking outside of the subject area. I think it boils down to the fact that people so close to something often can't remove the lens that cloud their thinking.