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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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.
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.
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.
That was a couple of decades ago. This is coming to a head now but it has been a surreal situation for years.
“You show me the man, I’ll show you the crime.”
— Lavrenti Beria, Stalin’s notorious secret police chief,
“Chase citizens away, herd illegals in. How long can a nation survive with such a scheme.”
Not for long. Divorce is coming.
It's what they want so they can continue living in their make-believe fantasy land.
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!
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!
“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.
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.
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...
they own all of your money and all or your future money and don't even think anything is for yourself..
>>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?
Been warning people of this collapse for well over 30 years, only to have my (and many fellow patriots) words fall upon deaf ears.
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