Alaska,
It's the creation of a black market that sustains organized crime. The way you create a black market is for a government to make something illegal... thus organized crime owes its existance to governments.
There is another element to this. There is a huge number of people who got cross phased with the IRS. The IRS now has imposed a 'wages freeze' against them such that if they work the funds they earn go to the IRS.
Thus, they begin working for cash only, and soon are swept up by making more in various ways, some illegal. It is like the government has a farm that grows criminals to sprinkle through society.
Curm