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US Citizens Now One Step Closer To Becoming Permanent Tax Slaves (Take a look at the Ex-PATRIOT Act)
The Sovereign Man ^
| 05/22/2012
| Simon Black
Posted on 05/22/2012 11:30:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
All money rightly belongs to the feral government.
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:31:18 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: SeekAndFind
America, Home of the Slave, Land of the Unfree.
To: Oztrich Boy
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:35:12 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: SeekAndFind
are citizens no longer protected from ex post facto punitive legislation?
Looks like tax refugees who want to come back just need to change their names to Jose Gomez and be smuggled back across the mexican border.
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:39:12 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
To: massgopguy
These proposals are RETROACTIVE... Nope. No can do. That is if we are to follow our laws.
To: SeekAndFind
The Soviets used to charge their citizens(or is that subjects?) for all the “Free” stuff that the benevolent government had given them throughout their lifetimes before allowing them to immigrate too.
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:40:17 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: SeekAndFind
Just another reason to put money in foreign trusts or other tax dodges.
To: SeekAndFind
How do they plan on enforcing this?
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:44:19 AM PDT
by
Jess79
To: Principled
Didn’t you get the memo? The Constitution is irrelevant now.
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:44:26 AM PDT
by
iceskater
(I am a Carnivore Conservative - No peas for me. (h/t N.Theknow))
To: SeekAndFind
Republicans approach situations from an analytical perspective. Liberals approach situations from an emotionally vengeful perspective.
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:50:26 AM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: SeekAndFind
While he’s on a roll, good little fascist Chuckie Schumer ought to author a law that any New Yorker who moves to FL or any other state for lower taxes is permanently barred from re-entering New York
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posted on
05/22/2012 11:50:50 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
To: SeekAndFind
Republicans like to build walls to keep people out. Democrats like to build walls to keep people in.
To: SeekAndFind
This is right out of the Communist Manifesto:
“4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants”.
Plank #4 of 10.
To: SeekAndFind
As Norquist has pointed out, this is just an updated version of the Nazi Reichsfluchtsteuer tax on Jewish emigrants.
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posted on
05/22/2012 12:05:37 PM PDT
by
Vide
To: Jess79
RE: How do they plan on enforcing this?
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Expand the reach of the IRS.
The US government ( with the aid of the IRS ) has already BULLIED Switzerland’s biggest banks (e.g. UBS ) into disclosing the names and accounts of US citizens with deposits in that country.
How do they do that? Simple, punish the American business of UBS.
Even as we speak many American ex-pats are starting to find it difficult opening bank accounts in many places. Too much paperwork for US citizens for foreign banks to comply.
It is happening folks. The only thing is most of you are not aware of it because most of you are not expats and don’t have or plan to live and work in other countries.
As they once said in Nazi Germany,
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
To: SeekAndFind
There are some interesting numbers below....at some point its gonna start looking like a “bank run” ...which is essentially what it is...
The Feds are desperately worried some of the 50% of the population they uses as cash cows to help them fund their delusions are catching on...and leaving....
Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Supermans lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. Thats a record number since the Internal Revenue Service began publishing a list of those who renounced in 1998. Its also almost eight times more than the number of citizens who renounced in 2008, and more than the total for 2007, 2008 and 2009 combined.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/us-usa-citizen-renounce-idUSBRE83F0UF20120416
Even more alarming....in 1997 the list was ONLY 90 people renouncing...so that year, 2011, it was TWENTY times greater that in 1997...
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1997-01-30/html/97-2283.htm
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posted on
05/22/2012 12:12:44 PM PDT
by
mo
(If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
To: SeekAndFind
Nazis did the same thing, but don’t you DARE call Schumckie a Nazi.
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posted on
05/22/2012 12:14:38 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: SeekAndFind
We sure have come a long way since 1970, when conservatives had nothing but disgust and revulsion for anyone who would renounce America and their citizenship.
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posted on
05/22/2012 12:15:57 PM PDT
by
ansel12
( The first American vote for a man who believes that he will become literally God, an actual deity.)
To: mo
In the international section of its most recent annual report to Congress, the agencys National Taxpayer Advocate notes that whether its Americans working abroad or foreigners residing here, taxpayers who are trying their best to comply simply cannot. The result is that some are paying more tax than is legally required, while others may be subject to steep civil and criminal penalties.
Heres the real issue: When it comes to attracting highly successful people, America is just not as competitive as we like to think we are.
What we need is a complete rethink. That rethink begins with a hard look at what these 1,800 citizenship renunciations are telling us. True, 1,800 is a drop in the bucket compared with either the number of Americans working abroad or the number of foreigners who are seeking U.S. citizenship. Still, when it comes to the global inefficiencies of our tax code, these 1,800 ex-Americans are canaries in the coal mine.
Our tax codeand especially the onerous reporting requirements that come with itis turning U.S. citizens into economic lepers. Many foreign banks refuse us as customers; some investment ventures no longer want us as partners; and some business opportunities that would have benefited Americans now benefit others.
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