[expat_panama]

Huh. Europeans taxing Americans. You really got to hand it to those guys...

[jsanders2001]

I have noticed these organizations popping up all over the place in every city the past few years (Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development). Part of the Agenda 21 blueprint perhaps?

[expat_panama]

Market in Correction!!  Not a very good way to wake up; how about "stock index futures lead the way at +0.46% while gold and silver hold steady at $1,127.96 and $14.61!  Sounds better, and while the stock dip was a jolt we're still above the big plunge that hit a month ago.  For now.

Reports --just the Case-Shiller 20-city Index and Consumer Confidence. 

Y'all might want to check out these threads:

• Donald Trump's wild claim: Unemployment is 42%
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• Census Data Proves It – There Was No Economic Recovery Unless You Were Already Rich

[PGalt]

DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat

[citizen]

...they think it is a tax on greedy billionaires. In fact, the corporate tax is paid by consumers...

I wish more people understood this.

The Obama administration and the complicit OECD never bothered to do cost-benefit analysis on all of these new regulations...<.I>

I'm sure that's true but otoh, some bureaucrats will pass whatever tax plan the can simply because they can rig the process so they will get "their cut" of the revenue generated.

Any tax or other revenue plan under the UN mantle allows them to cast a wider net while pretending to solve the world's ills.

[Sir Napsalot]

Slightly OT - (excerpt)

"Carly Fiorina (aka Cara Carleton Sneed) sat on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, which has observer status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

But congressional support for global governance will not wane on Carly’s watch. Agenda 21 and “sustainable development” are the new buzz words for “global socialism” through global governance and Carly sits on the Foundation Board at the mother ship.

This is by no means new for Fiorina though. Her affiliation with global activists dates back many years and includes some of our nation’s most nefarious characters.

An inquiring reporter worth his or her salt should be asking Carly to describe her long-term relationship with Dr. Khalid al-Mansour—aka Don Warden, Black Panther puppet master, Saudi Royal front-man and Obama education financier?"

(source)

Granted this is old research material for Fiorina's senate run. (A shame we have to go to Canada Free Press for reporting this.) An aspiring reporter should ask 'what have you done lately?' wrt Carly Fiorina. And who (inside GOPe) backed her, encouraged her to run.

[Chgogal]

It seems to me it is America taxing Americans who are living abroad (possibly) twice and making life miserable for them with the FACTA enforcement.

The United States has become a global, irresponsible financial bully by imposing its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regulations on the world’s financial institutions. FATCA greatly reduces the ability of Americans living abroad and low-income people most anywhere on the globe to open bank accounts and transfer money, while placing a stifling burden of regulations on the world’s financial industry. The Obama administration and the complicit OECD never bothered to do cost-benefit analysis on all of these new regulations — because many are intellectually or morally dishonest (much like the fact that OECD staff is exempt from income taxes that they demand others pay). Brian Garst of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity said it best when he wrote that the OECD’s “BEPS threatens to erect substantial and costly new barriers to global commerce, and its proponents clearly hope no one will notice until it is too late.”

Obama’s America has become so onerous that Americans are giving up their citizenship to rid themselves of America's Obama Bullies.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/12/pf/americans-expat-citizenship-passports/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/02/06/americans-renouncing-citizenship-up-221-all-aboard-the-fatca-express/

http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2015/05/07/record-number-give-up-u-s-citizenship/