Theater for the masses while they institute new ways to come after the little guy. Spend more than $600 dollars in a transaction and it's reported to the IRS (at least that is what they wanted and proposed). Then being the clever bastards they are agreed to change it to 10k cumulative a year thinking it's enough to hide the fact that it's the same thing. So if you have anything more than 10k a year of transactions in you bank account, the entire ledger of activities will be sent the IRS.
Shit rolls down hill, billionaires don't pay taxes.