I've read many people are going back to land lines instead of cell phones. They have to have a warrant to wiretap phones. You can say what you will to another without it being recorded, at least without a warrent. Text messages can be back read. Unless voice is recorded, it it their word against yours. Snail mail cannot be opened except by the receiver. Also there are shredders that can shred both vertical and horizonal for snail mail. Then you can always get your Ham radio license and I know people who have that. It can only be pinpointed by triangulation. You can also do this using a vehicle mobile. There are CB radios also, but you have to be a couple of miles or less away unless you increase the power output, then it becomes a Ham radio that requires a license.
With the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents, everyone making under $200,000 is subject to audit. If you do cash under the table and deposit it in the bank, they will get you. They are spending a $1 to get a dime. The only people I know who get cash right now are restaurant servers as tips and beauticians. Others may, but if they deposit the money and they check your bank statements, if the deposits are more than you reported as income, you will be paying back taxes.
Then there are liberal friends or nosy neighbors who can call the BATF and you could be raided. What about guns you bought from a friend or someone in your home town?
Things are looking bad and we must prepare for the worse.
As far as solar and wind, the government doesn't have to spend billions doing it, and raise taxes. Or, pay people to buy electric cars. They can just as well mandate the power companies to switch so much a year to alternative energy over time, like they did gas mileage. Same with electric cars, they can mandate car companies to phase them in and just do tax credits for people to buy them. Government doesn't need to raise taxes and build the stuff themselves. Cause taxes never go away.