They even threw in the “wallets” for the authoritarian coin in their response and clearly state (although semantically as usual) that it will serve to limit access to function and service.

The People: “No!” (In somewhat record breaking numbers.)

The government: ‘We’ll do it anyways, as it’s not like we work for you at all. Oh, we do?! Your tax money?! Yeah, we can just print more of that.’