To quote Wikipedia:
It is defined as knowingly engaging in a financial transaction with the proceeds of a crime for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property from governments.[1]
More specifically, money laundering is defined in Article 6.1.a.i and 6.1.a.ii of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime[2]. The PDF won't let me copy & paste the text, but it uses the language "proceeds of crime" in both subsections.
Some jurisdictions may have monetary reporting laws which are broken during transferring BTCs, but it isn't money laundering (under international law anyway).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering#Criminalizing_...
[2] http://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/UNTOC/Publications/T...
There are very few legitimate reasons to be concealing where you money came from or is going from the IRS, and they well aware of the intent behind the actions.
Come up with a way for the IRS to investigate (not just get it handed to them on a platter, but something that mathematically requires a level of effort to prevent fishing expeditions by IRS employees) while simultaneously keeping all transactions private from everyone else and then we'll have a solution.
Nice circular reasoning. Because everything that the IRS would disapprove of is illegitimate? When did the IRS get ultimate moral authority?
Spending on sex toys is not special, unless the national security apparatus (or more likely your competitor in the private sector) already has a reason to try to discredit you. Which is a valid concern for activists, but not most people.
Investigations and enforcement actions by the IRS have nothing to do with the morality of your checking account statement and everything to do with tax evasion.
The largest threat to your financial privacy is private enterprise. Underwriters, prospective employers, and others with a financial stake in your "good behavior" are the most interested in judging the moral acceptability/health/prudence of your financial choices.
Amazing.
Translation: "Rights are essential for small group of people, because everyone else is not exercising them anyway. So lets just take the rights away".
2) I'm a person. I have to pay taxes. Top500 corps - not so much, in practice. What do you say about that?
3) Where the fuck did you get that I'm a tax evader? I was addressing your point about people's rights and your evaluation of their need of having those rights.
That's irrelevant. I don't need a reason for concealing where my money comes from.
Oh sure, the IRS may disagree, but I have a really hard time giving a shit about what the IRS thinks.