Posted on 01/25/2013 9:03:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What Gerard Depardieu is to France, Tina Turner may be to the United States.
The "Private Dancer" singer is giving up her US passport, in favor of a Swiss one.
"I'm very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here. ... I cannot imagine a better place to live," Turner told the German newspaper Blick.
Turner has lived in the Zurich suburb of Kuesnacht since the mid-1990s. The local Zuerichsee-Zeitung newspaper said on its website the local council announced its decision to grant the 73-year-old Turner citizenship in an official notice published in Friday's edition.
The decision still requires formal approval from state and federal authorities.
Turner's rep told Zuerichsee-Zeitung the singer wanted to "clarify her situation".
"Tina Turner will therefore also give back her US citizenship," she said.
Depardieu announced he was renouncing his French citizenship because of the country's high taxes, and he was offered Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin.
Turner was born in Nutbush, Tenn.
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This is the same Tina Turner who gushed over the election of Obama in 2008, declaring that “We got a new President”. Clearly she no longer considers herself part of the WE or that she has any responsibility to help pay for the madness that her hero has inflicted on America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENadrKwn2wo
they’re not weird, they’re ‘eccentric’.
weird is the poor people sniffing bath salts.
Fifteen years ago I worked with a client who was born in Switzerland, but his mother was Dutch, so he traveled under a Dutch passport. Maybe the Swiss have liberalized their naturalization procedures, but my impression is that it is incrediably difficult to get Swiss citizenship. Obviously, Ms Turner has overcome those difficulties.
That’s worth an Amen here.
So she’s leaving the United Solicialist States of America for Switzerland......good for her.
Another, like Denise Rich, who wants to impose socialism on America, then flee before it affects them.
I thought you either had to be born Swiss or marry a Swiss citizen .
RE: I thought you either had to be born Swiss or marry a Swiss citizen
See Posts #20 and 21 above
Under new rules crammed thru last year the Obama Administration is going to extract the last few drops of blood from her hide in the form of “exit taxes and fees” before allowing her to become an ex-American.
Swiss chocolate, baby!
well, i think it very rare to become a Swiss citizen - they don’t like outsiders to mess up their country. Just what I heard few yrs ago
Good for her...Who gives a rats ass what Tina Turner does with her fortune?
I think she spends the winter at a place along the Riviera. There was a “60 Minutes” profile of her some years ago that showed it.
You are correcto mundo.....”Exit taxes and fees” may take a big bite out of Tina Turners fortune...Redistribution doncha know Tina?
The Swiss, unlike our domestic rats, are dedicated to preserving their heritage.
Wonder if the Swiss will issue her a passport before the US gives her the go-ahead?
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