On top of that, they want to make it official that people who do avoid paying their taxes by renouncing citizenship are unable from ever re-entering the country again.
That is so braindead, it's not even wrong. You'd be hard-put to come up with a worse policy if you were actively trying.
Well, Schumer (D-NY) and Casey (D-PA) are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. They will call Saverin’s $67 million tax “duck” an “outrage” today in their press conference when they detail the rest of the Ex-Patriot act.
The "outrage" is these dipshit politicians and their big-spending government and their obsessive desire to steal every cent they can from the rest of us.
That's interesting. Someone who was born in country A and is a citizen of country B and decided to live in country C, no longer wants to be a citizen of B (which would be understandable for a lot of reasons, taxes being only one of many) still has to pay taxes as if he/she were actually using country B's tax-funded services.
Even worse: someone who was born in country B and lived his whole life outside of country B, still needs to file taxes and pay social security every year as if he was living in country B.
An interesting question is what happens when you renounce citizenship for political reasons (for this exercise, consider someone who fundamentally disagrees with the current employment of military force). Shouldn't this rule, one that effectively punishes such forms of protest, go against the 1st amendment?
So, the government decides to give tax breaks to the rich. Not much you and I can do about that. It's hard fighting the system, you can camp out in Wall st all you want.
So lets single out this one guy and crucify him, make him an example of what we do with expats who don't pay their due.
Yeah, seeing how Schumer and Casey are hell-bent on making an example of him, he probably will end up paying WAY more than 67 million. He'll end up paying with his citizenship if they get their way.
[+] [-] mindcrime|14 years ago|reply
That is so braindead, it's not even wrong. You'd be hard-put to come up with a worse policy if you were actively trying.
Well, Schumer (D-NY) and Casey (D-PA) are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. They will call Saverin’s $67 million tax “duck” an “outrage” today in their press conference when they detail the rest of the Ex-Patriot act.
The "outrage" is these dipshit politicians and their big-spending government and their obsessive desire to steal every cent they can from the rest of us.
[+] [-] herpderp|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] dguaraglia|14 years ago|reply
That's my particular case.
[+] [-] eblackburn|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] pan69|14 years ago|reply
So, the government decides to give tax breaks to the rich. Not much you and I can do about that. It's hard fighting the system, you can camp out in Wall st all you want.
So lets single out this one guy and crucify him, make him an example of what we do with expats who don't pay their due.
[+] [-] jag0|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] rsanchez1|14 years ago|reply
How are these people even in the Senate anyway, much less re-elected each term?
[+] [-] thedeuce|14 years ago|reply
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