katz, I hear you. Perhaps some of your rational applies to people living in countries that do not have the same government infrastructure as we have in the U.S. Your perspective may be different for that reason. But for the U.S., secret banking only serves to do illegal things.

I'm not talking about privacy. I am talking about secrecy. Governments do have a right to tax. Secrecy from governments only allows the process to subverted.