Taxes Prompt More Americans to Renounce Citizenship

Reuters/CNBC ^ | 4/16/12

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ve been thinking of becoming an illegal alien myself. We Americans get no respect anymore. As an illegal, I’d have it made in this country. No taxes and lots of handouts.

[Cvengr]

No hablo Ingles, Senor.

[Gay State Conservative]

The US is the only civilized country on earth that taxes its citizens on worldwide income when they're living outside the country.And our Tax Cheat-In-Chief,Geitner,fully supports that.

[Just another Joe]

If they renounce their citizenship just to avoid taxes, they weren't very good citizens to begin with.

I may end up moving out of the country when I retire but I will NOT renounce my citizenship.

[Bigun]

Fact: The top-earning 1% of US taxpayers are Leaving the USA at the highest rate in history. (Source: INS/Census Bureau & Zogby International estimates)

http://actionamerica.org/taxecon/ticktick.shtml

[STJPII]

If the antichrist wins in November, I could see that number jumping ten fold.

[headstamp 2]

Citizenship is overrated.

[Surrounded_too]

National IQ probably went down as well.

[Baynative]

Like many who love the sea and sailing, good friend of mine has talked of sailing around the world for a long time. He is politically astute and did a lot of research into Obama and his colleagues from Chicago. As the health care debate raged on, he and his wife began doing some work on their boat and selling their stuff. They left for a life at sea about 14 months ago. They've spent most of the last year in the Pacific and are now just north of the canal heading for the Virgin Islands and then ...wherever.

We talked last week and I asked him what they miss about 'home' now that they've been gone over a year. He said, "Absolutely NOTHING!"

[lightman]

If the antichrist wins in November...

Which one?

[Secret Agent Man]

You could still vote too.

[Puckster]

“Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Superman’s lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That’s a record number”

How does that number hold up percentage wise? Dunno, however, was Alec Baldwin on of them? Just hoping.

[Sequoyah101]

Where is the best place to go? Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore?

No place in the EU, not Brazil, mostly and probably not Eastern Europe.

I remember seeing some kind of freedom index that included taxes. We have discussed leaving the U.S. before. Citizenship here is meaning less and less to me. Family is the only thing that keeps me here now.

Before anyone ridicules about giving up... giving up what? I don’t see a win in this mess ever for anyone.

[Repeat Offender]

If they renounce their citizenship just to avoid taxes, they weren't very good citizens to begin with.

I think some crusty old white men did that back in the 1770's....they weren't very good citizens either.

[Sequoyah101]

Good old Heritage Foundation. They study the heck out of things but never produce any solutions.

Freedom index and comparison to other countries:

http://www.heritage.org/index/visualize

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

I am becoming a conscientious objector to taxes. I believe they are cruel and inhumane when collected by a government that can print half of the money it spends each year thereby inflating the value of all our money away and not having to tax anyone.

Grow a pair, President Obama, end taxes now and spend only freshly printed money from the Federal Reserve computers.

Probably give us a few more good years before the collapse.

[max americana]

My Gf is Canadian and a green card holder. She won’t file for citizenship until Klownie the Kenyan and Chewbacca are out.

[GeronL]

Those reasons are much loftier than the formerly super man

[RitchieAprile]

southern laos. central vietnam. small coffee ranch.
if one has to die among strangers i’d choose these.