&gt; They will ignore financial disclosure laws just as they ignore laws prohibiting them from operating large scale drug and murder operations.<p>I am not suggesting financial disclosure laws. I&#x27;m suggesting that everyone stop accepting anonymous money, then stop accepting money that funded murders because doing so would empower the murderers.<p>&gt; They&#x27;re difficult to stop because they kill people who try to investigate and arrest their members.<p>The killers are paid to do the killing. If they could no longer buy things with the proceeds, they would stop killing.<p>&gt; (money only works when it affords its user with privacy)<p>I disagree with this. Can you explain how money would stop working without privacy?<p>&gt; The solution to abuse by the wealthy is to fix the political system, so that money cannot buy political influence, not eliminate wealth and privacy.<p>The political system cannot be fixed unless everyone becomes a single-issue voter on campaign finance. Otherwise, those votes will be purchased away, and we can&#x27;t outspend the wealthy. We should try to fix the political system, but I expect those efforts to fail.<p>I have no desire to eliminate wealth. I do want to eliminate financial privacy because it seems clear that it hurts us more than it helps.