I bet you if the US offered each of the 56 thousand residents something like $100,000 tax free, plus US citizenship, and promise of investment, plus some billions to Denmark, we could buy Greenland. Greenland residents would love to get the money, the investment, and US citizenship. It would be a big win all around.
and throw in a round-trip ticket to say, Sarasota...
Could help with the immigration crisis too. “The good news is, you will be allowed in to the USA. The bad news is, your ship leaves tomorrow for Greenland”.
You know what, your ‘crazy’ idea isn’t so crazy, and Trump is such an out side the box guy I’ll bet he’ll make such an offer too.
Some info I gleaned:
The Denmark passport is excellent already
+80% of the residents are tribe members
Average per capita income is +$36k
They have a nice deal going now
Still, there are advantages to them
And we’d have Canada surrounded!
But Trump is correct to pursue this if true....
That sounds like an offer too good to refuse!
If we offered every adult 18 years of age or older $1 million, it would only cost us $42 billion.
That would be an amazing deal.
They would all be wealthy and citizens of the most powerful nation on earth.
The current population is 56 thousand, including children.
American citizenship isn’t that great, especially if you don’t live in US. It is the only citizenship afaik that demands you pay income tax even if you live in another country, which is why many dual nationals renounce it. Then there is the fact that Americans are hated in many countries and having a US passport is like a red rag to a bull to some often very dangerous people in some parts of the world (same with a British passport, which is why a lot of British citizens who are also entitled to Irish passports prefer to travel on the latter.
Considering the value of Greenland, residents should be offered far more $100,000. They could, and should, turn that down.