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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 10/26/18> Let’s get real…Real ID Act-Title II H.R.1268
A couple of days ago I watched a very interesting YouTube video about renouncing your citizenship. Apparently if you have no citizenship you can get arrested for no reason (so what makes that different from being an ordinary citizen, I hear you ask... hmm). I found it quite thought-provoking.
Apparently many US citizens with dual nationality are renouncing their citizenship, because under laws introduced in 2010, even if they are tax-paying nationals residing in a different country, they have to continue to pay tax in the US – so they could end up paying two lots of income tax.
We even get taxed when we die here, so just because you leave the country doesn't mean you escape the taxes. The whole point is that without our knowledge we are being bound to contracts that we aren't even aware exist through consenting to be citizens.
Citizens can be just as easily arrested and held without charges or a hearing for long periods of time, so there really is no difference there as you mentioned.
my gosh!!! a death tax??? i wasn't aware of such things. it seems that the U.S citizens have the responsibility to be aware that these taxes exist. For outsiders, living in the U.S is portrayed as "living the American dream". Sounds really nice and great. Looks like a lot has change since the phrase was invented.
Sayings take on different meanings over time for sure. Right now I would say that for people in other countries looking at America, "living the American dream" would mean that the US isn't bombing the USA so it would be a good place to live.
We have been known to bomb ourselves though, Waco Tx is one, Oklahoma City is another and the case has been made that 9/11 was a government bombing job to start the "war on terror" so while we aren't flying bombing runs on major US cities yet, that possibility isn't out out the realm of possibilities either.