Posted on 09/02/2014 7:14:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That would be a great plan if he wasn’t also making it ten times more expensive to be a US citizen. I’m not sure what comes next. A big concrete wall and barbed wire?
Obama is making it easy to come and hard to leave. The only places that do that are prisons and bear traps. It doesn’t say anything good about the American Dream when the country encourages non-taxpayers to come and penalizes taxpayers who want to leave.
Americans who are abandoning their citizenship in droves are due to be charged five times more to surrender their passport under government plans announced yesterday.
The number of US citizens renouncing their nationality has been increasing dramatically in recent years.
In 2012, 933 Americans gave up their citizenship. In 2013 this more than trebled to 3014 and in the first six months of this year 1,579 people have surrendered their nationality.
But now the situation has become so acute that the government has introduced a fivefold hike in the service fee charged to renounce American citizenship – with the price going up from $450 to $2,350.
So it’s gotten that bad that people abandoning their citizenship are a revenue source. At least they aren’t being shot at from guard towers.
Yet.
This is similar to medieval times when people carried a few pieces of gold or silver with them to give the executioner so his sword would be swift and their death as painless as possible.
"Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted." -- Barack Obama, Tyrant-in-Chief
This week-end, I watched the movie Gladiator (2000) for the first time. I was struck by the similarities between Barack Obama and the villainous emperor Commodus, who murdered his father so that he could become emperor, instead of his rival Maximu, and then set about to rule in a way that would guarantee the end of the Roman Republic forever.
Laz, you hit it on the head.
Ah, but we obviously didn’t defeat the Soviets. The Fifth Column they installed has done its job all too well. We lost the Cold War and sheer inertia won’t allow folks to realize it yet.
NOVA | What Darwin Never Knew
What does Darwin have to do with Obama trying to stop people from renouncing their US citizenship?
Thank you for bringing that to my attention SeekAndFind. I posted to the wrong thread.
Laz.
Back when the Berlin Wall fell I was with a bunch of other officers, including my Squadron Commander and his boss. With all the jubilation going on I commented that we needed to watch out because we were actually becoming communist and we needed to change things as a nation.
Those two Colonels didn’t take my comment very well.
This is the behavior of a 3rd World country.
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