Posted on 12/28/2015 12:51:45 AM PST by Olog-hai
Under a new enforcement provision passed into law earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service can revoke passports of serious tax offenders who owe more than $50,000 to the government.
And Uncle Sam can take away your passport at any time, even when the offender is traveling outside the country. [...]
The new passport-revoking provision allows the Department of the Treasury and the IRS to authorize the State Department to take away U.S. passports from individuals with seriously delinquent debts, which the government defines as greater than $50,000, the Arizona Republic reported. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
So Warren Buffett is grounded?
Passports are not a right....they are a privilege. The comical side of this is that you can go out and buy some residency deal from a 3rd world country, and get one of their passports to make up for this situation. Cross the border into Mexico, and fly out via one of their fine airports. Anyone who thinks that Congress ‘fixed’ anything...they just opened the door to more options and more Americans holding residency in other countries.
The ability for an American to leave his country is not a right? So when the government decides you can’t leave and throws you in jail, I hope you enjoy your privilege. Sicko.
The North Korean government agrees with you.
So Al Sharpton has to ride a limo everywhere he goes now?
Go read the Constitution...there is no such right to a passport.
Will this affect Rangel?
Can they wait until Sharpton is out of the country before pulling his passport? And yes, Canada counts.
I don’t know about this.
While I understand on one hand, this is how the Soviets acted, and causes all sorts of alarm bells for me.
Just saying. Freedom is very, very important.
Kent v Dulles was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right to travel is a part of the “liberty” of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment.
It’s covered under the 1st and 5th amendments, simpleton.
You actually support the US government limiting the freedom of travel of its citizens? I can’t wait for some government twerp to come along and tell you you can’t leave Dogpatch on Sadie Hawkins day.
You are partial to Steinbeck? The guy is remedial reading for communists. You are in the wrong forum fascist. Enjoy Germany and your jihadists friends.
Behind all of this....you have two groups on the IRS radar.
The first group are actual gov’t employees who are in debt to the federal government because they didn’t put aside enough money to cover their obligation. These are typically the big idiots who showed up in DC to take a federal job....got the $120,000 salary, and their wife got some insider contractor job for $250,000 a year, and they screwed up on the budget process.
I worked with one of these naive guys whose wife was on the start-up edge of the ‘cloud’ business and went from a $80k a year contractor to a $250k a year contractor. They were flying off to Mexico three times a year and spending a ton of money....then he woke up one day when the accountant noted that the wife never put a penny of salary into monthly deductions to IRS or the Virginia tax folks. He had to come up with roughly $100k out of thin air.
The second group are people who are finding ways to shift their money out of the US, or running businesses outside of the country and don’t want to pay taxation into both the US and the country where their business is operated. Once the US finds out....it gets all messy.
I admit....we have a 1970s IRS operation and ought to correct our entire method of taxation and get active with the times. But so far, no one wants to touch the IRS...not even our wonderful Republican Party.
The United States of America should not even have passports. There should be no American restrictions whatever on travel by Americans. If passports are deemed necessary to facilitate border crossing between other countries then passports should be automatically issued to any American. The only paper an American should need for entry to the US is some ID that shows citizenship. Foreigners can be required to show and have passports or anything else the US determines.Once upon a time Americans were free people. We feel that we are free now but it is because freedoms have been sliced away a little at a time and each time there is a purported rational cause. I am old enough to remember the 50s and 60s. One could go a year without dealing with a government office or meeting a bureaucrat. One’s bank transactions were not under constant scrutiny. One was not at constant peril of losing possessions or cash to a bureaucrat or police because an official or a secretary somewhere says he suspects something one has might have been used peripherally to the commission of a misdemeanor sometime in the previous century. Open carry or concealed carry were not terms in general use. As a young teenager my rifle did not excite people or bring a cop. I carried a .38 shark pistol when I was a commercial fisherman in the early 60s and it was always on me or in my bag because I didn’t have some place to leave it. I remember a policeman telling me one time I needed to trade it in for one that worked better. What we used to be able to do in the fishing occupation is a whole nother area of once upon a time freedom that no longer exists.
Nor is there any constitutional authorization for passports. Their requirement by the US for Americans to travel is an abomination.
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Americans don’t have privileges, we have rights.
You might want to give the constitution a read yourself.
Imagine you're in Aruba and they decide to finally take your passport. How do you get back to the U.S.?
You are okay with this?
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