I smell much much higher taxes coming down the pipeline. It seems to me that this is the underlying purpose of these new changes, in addition to the obvious intent to reduce the profitability of trading Forex for retail clients here in the US. They are on a campaign to not only eventually terminate democracy altogether, but to destroy the American middle-class. They know that poor and unemployed young men, with hungry families, may more willingly agree to participate in war. They intend to spread their war-making to many countries and we are the fools who are to help them. Guard your sons carefully. Resist US global hegemony. Lose the mind-set that makes critical political thought nearly a crime here on the US streets. This is very serious business.
They wrap everything they do within a lie. In this case, the lie is that they are trying to "protect" us. Obviously, a few new regulations would have been sufficient to accomplish that end, but barring us from having foreign accounts belies their intentions. This is always the case now with whatever they do. One must always look beneath the surface to understand them.
I adhere to the 180 degree theory. The truth is usually 180 degrees from what they say it is. Try this out and you will find that it works.