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Mike Lee: “The ease and simplicity of protecting the privacy and the…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 21st

Published | Video Starts at 30:13

… they collect a whole lot of data, including a whole lot of personally identifying data on US Citizens. So they're just hyper focusing on this one where, by the way, The ease and simplicity of protecting the privacy and the personal information of individual US Citizens is far easier than it is in the context of the IRS or of the financial transactions or everything else that the US Government keeps track of. So this strikes me as pretextual. And of course, pretextual is a fancy word for it's a cheap excuse for the real reason. Now, maybe we'll get to the real reason in a minute. (30:13–30:34)

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Asserts that protecting privacy in the context of the Save America Act is easier than with IRS or financial data.

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