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But two nations — the United States and Eritrea — require its citizens to pay taxes on income while living in other countries.

So there you have it. Eritrea is ObaMao's model for the United States.

Seriously, this is really stupid. Japan has a much higher percentage of their citizens living abroad who understand the local cultures and report home so they can make products every other country wants to buy.

America has just a fraction of their citizens living and working abroad. The biggest categories are military and retirees. No knock on the military, but they overwhelmingly live on base with other Americans. It is their job to protect, not learn about other cultures. Some do, of course, but not to the extent that their foreign counterparts who work in the United States or other countries.

Retirees, of course, are not there to open new markets for American products but to (usually) stretch their retirement dollars.

The remainder (those there to work) usually work at either a level so high or a term so short that they do not provide a benefit comparable to their companies which their Japanese, Latin American and European counterparts do. The tax treatment is one major factor as to why.