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The Dark Road: The Worst Tax Law You've Never Heard About (effective July 1st)
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Posted on 06/28/2014 11:11:55 AM PDT by TigerClaws

It broke Ruth Freeborn’s heart to give up her U.S. citizenship that fateful day last year. Unfortunately for the Oklahoma native, though, it was either that, or her family. Ruth’s Canadian husband of 33 years, who earns all of the middle-class family’s income, “simply could not go along with this situation,” she explained. “To find myself suddenly not able to live, bank, save or to keep peace in my marriage while being American at the same time was shocking at first and deeply disturbing to me.”

Ruth wrote “what must have been” hundreds of letters to U.S. senators and officials, clinging to the hope that something — anything — could be done to stop what felt like a nightmare. Even as she protested, federal bureaucrats claimed that what was happening to her, and millions of other innocent Americans overseas, was somehow a “myth.” She knew it wasn’t a myth — after all, she was living it.

More than three decades ago, Ruth m

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KEYWORDS: banking; disaster; fatca; foreigninvestment; irs; taxes
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To: sodpoodle
Stop complaining, citizen. Paying taxes to the U.S. Treasury is a privilege, wherever you reside. Much like U.S. corporations have to pay tax on their world-wide income.

Never mind that it makes U.S. corporations offshore their operations, or this woman renounce her citizenship . . . to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs.

21 posted on 06/28/2014 2:24:30 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: AZLiberty

They just keep on ginning up the “animal spirits” factor of Keynesian theory, whenever they need a boost in their model. Maybe everybody should get ecstasy pills from Washington so they’ll madly labor to prop up the pyramid.


22 posted on 06/28/2014 2:25:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: sodpoodle

Because the IRS now has the legal right ( if a country signs the IGA) to look into the foreign spouse’s bank account to see if the American is hiding anything.

Google United States Norway IGA bank agreement. Its 36 pages of pure government overreach. Will make Communists envious.


23 posted on 06/28/2014 2:30:43 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: sodpoodle
When we lived overseas I had a job where I was earning around $300.00 a month. I had to file US income taxes even though none of the money came from the US, the school was not US and I had not set foot in the US in three years.

That was a couple of decades ago. This is coming to a head now but it has been a surreal situation for years.

24 posted on 06/28/2014 2:31:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Organic Panic

“You show me the man, I’ll show you the crime.”
— Lavrenti Beria, Stalin’s notorious secret police chief,


25 posted on 06/28/2014 3:18:49 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: smoothsailing

“Chase citizens away, herd illegals in. How long can a nation survive with such a scheme.”

Not for long. Divorce is coming.


26 posted on 06/28/2014 4:46:58 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Be a part of the American freedom migration: freestateproject.org)
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To: TigerClaws
The United States is now a composite version of the German Third Reich and Fascist Italy, thanks to obammy and the Dems.

It's what they want so they can continue living in their make-believe fantasy land.

27 posted on 06/28/2014 5:05:20 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: TigerClaws
Well, this is an interesting topic.
I ‘m not feeling instantly sorry for the woman, based on what little of her situation was divulged here.

Just guessing, it sounds like her personal choices led her into a catch 22.
Her child(ren) are dual citizen(s) of both Canada and the USA.
She effectively has an “anchor baby”.

The USA government either doesn't know and/or won't tell the public, how many “anchor babies” born of two foreign parents who reside outside of the USA exist.
They can track those born of at least one USA citizen, living in foreign nations.

I wonder when she last voted for in a USA Federal election?
Did her now 33 year old USA/Canadian citizen “child” also vote?
What about the 18 and over “anchor babies” born here, and never having set foot in the USA afterwards.
They are all also eligible to vote in all Federal elections.
How many of them voted?
How many of them paid taxes of any kind to the USA?

Lots of pregnant women from all over the world come to the USA to birth “anchor babies”.
China has encouraged this for a long time.

No, I am not particularly distressed about “USA citizens” complaining about paying USA taxes from gains made in foreign nations, and foreign nations and banks no longer wanting to get involved, at all, with laundering money for those claiming USA citizenship for tax reasons.

Yes, it's all very complicated...LOL!

28 posted on 06/28/2014 10:02:49 PM PDT by sarasmom (Extortion 17. A large number of Navy SEALs died on that mission. Ask why.)
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To: TigerClaws
Well, this is an interesting topic.
I ‘m not feeling instantly sorry for the woman, based on what little of her situation was divulged here.

Just guessing, it sounds like her personal choices led her into a catch 22.
Her child(ren) are dual citizen(s) of both Canada and the USA.
She effectively has an “anchor baby”.

The USA government either doesn't know and/or won't tell the public, how many “anchor babies” born of two foreign parents who reside outside of the USA exist.
They can track those born of at least one USA citizen, living in foreign nations.

I wonder when she last voted for in a USA Federal election?
Did her now 33 year old USA/Canadian citizen “child” also vote?
What about the 18 and over “anchor babies” born here, and never having set foot in the USA afterwards.
They are all also eligible to vote in all Federal elections.
How many of them voted?
How many of them paid taxes of any kind to the USA?

Lots of pregnant women from all over the world come to the USA to birth “anchor babies”.
China has encouraged this for a long time.

No, I am not particularly distressed about “USA citizens” complaining about paying USA taxes from gains made in foreign nations, and foreign nations and banks no longer wanting to get involved, at all, with laundering money for those claiming USA citizenship for tax reasons.

Yes, it's all very complicated...LOL!

29 posted on 06/28/2014 10:05:50 PM PDT by sarasmom (Extortion 17. A large number of Navy SEALs died on that mission. Ask why.)
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To: sodpoodle

“The US citizen is living with her Canadian citizen husband in Canada; where he works and earns a Canadian income. How is that any of the US Federal Government’s business?”

Seems like legally as long as he has a bank account in his name only, the IRS is not entitled to any information about the account.


30 posted on 06/29/2014 12:19:13 AM PDT by paristexas
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To: TigerClaws

Once upon a time, US citizens who worked overseas did not have to pay income tax. I only know this because I worked at Gulf Oil and I worked with many people who had worked in places like Kuwait, Iran, Venezuela and they told me they had put all that money they would have had to pay in taxes into savings and investments.


31 posted on 06/29/2014 6:48:50 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (I love my country; I don't like its government)
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To: TigerClaws
so expats receiving US benefits are going to have their finacial lives given the old rectal exam, if you will....

on a larger note, EVERYTHING and ANYTHING we own is basically controlled by the govt...

even if you wanted to take your money out of your 401 or Ira, the govt tracks you, taxes you, and IIRC, even can control how much you take out...

and if you wanted to get your money to a foreign country, how could you?...

after decades of intrusiveness, this is where we are...

32 posted on 06/29/2014 8:13:25 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Bryanw92
its exactly like the old timey work farms, where all the money you earned went to the company store, and you actually had to keep working to pay that bill off....

they own all of your money and all or your future money and don't even think anything is for yourself..

33 posted on 06/29/2014 8:17:25 AM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

>>its exactly like the old timey work farms, where all the money you earned went to the company store, and you actually had to keep working to pay that bill off....
they own all of your money and all or your future money and don’t even think anything is for yourself..

Good analogy. I hadn’t even thought it that way. I was thinking that this is something new in America, but it isn’t, is it?


34 posted on 06/29/2014 8:49:55 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: GeronL
Yep.

Been warning people of this collapse for well over 30 years, only to have my (and many fellow patriots) words fall upon deaf ears.

35 posted on 07/07/2014 3:37:37 PM PDT by Mikey (He that refuses to know and exert his rights, doesn't deserve them.)
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