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Stoll: Right To Leave U.S. Could Be Trumped by 30% Tax
Newsmax ^ | Monday, May 21, 2012 09:35 PM | By: Ira Stoll

Posted on 05/22/2012 6:50:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz

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To: ctdonath2

It doesn’t have to stop at individuals either, wait till they propose it for corporations as well. I remember a few years ago Microsoft was threatening to pack it all up and move to Vancouver.


101 posted on 05/22/2012 8:35:43 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Doe Eyes
Yeah. Same for those that leave California for a lower tax state like Texas. Charge them a 30% tax. That'll show em.

That was my first thought. Not a large leap 'til they tell you where you can & cannot live.

102 posted on 05/22/2012 8:49:03 AM PDT by mykroar (Romney: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Shows daily.)
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To: Lazamataz

The Reichsfluchsteuer, or Reich flight tax, that German government imposed on Jews trying to flee in the 1930s was 25 percent; Schumer and his Senate colleague Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, want 30 percent.


amazing how history repeats itself, huh?


103 posted on 05/22/2012 8:51:18 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Lazamataz

I am literally in shock that there are FReepers going along with this! Like the final act of Atlas Shrugged when they finally break down and torture John Galt demanding that he produce! This is unbelievable. It CAN happen here. It IS happening here!


104 posted on 05/22/2012 9:18:01 AM PDT by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
This will hurt trade to no end.

A typical outcome of Communism. Ending freedom of anything is their ultimate goal to enslave populations.

None of the Communist-wanna-bes can possibly answer the question: can you give one example of where Communism succeeded?

105 posted on 05/22/2012 9:21:56 AM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D in L0w and H0lder)
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To: montanajoe

I don’t know how your position differs from slavery. Maybe it’s slavery with an American flag on your lapel but it is slavery nonetheless.


106 posted on 05/22/2012 9:31:16 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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To: montanajoe

The America you and I are proud of would never pass such laws.

It is time to starve the beast. The founding premise of America is that the individual is superior to the State.

Change that and you no longer have an America.


107 posted on 05/22/2012 9:37:06 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....The days are long, but the years are short.....)
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To: montanajoe

This is no longer the America we grew up with.


108 posted on 05/22/2012 9:42:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: montanajoe

Traitors renounced their citizenship and left Germany.


109 posted on 05/22/2012 9:56:42 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: montanajoe
Cant feel much sympathy if the get clipped by a 30% tax on the way out..

If you approve of this sort of tax, you pretty much acknowledge that all of your property belongs to the government, and you just possess it until they decide to take it.

Don't get me wrong. I think Saverin has exposed himself as a man without a moral foundation. Who aspires to US citizenship and then renounces it? Eduardo Saverin, apparently. He's an international douche.

110 posted on 05/22/2012 10:08:57 AM PDT by Mr. Bird
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To: montanajoe

“I will never renounce nor consider renouncing my American citizenship.”

I agree with the sentiment of your statement, but this is not the America of my Grandfather, my father, or my youth.
I voluntarily fought in VN against the very idea that if you want to leave your country of birth you had to give the govt. your money, property, and sometimes your life.


111 posted on 05/22/2012 10:16:26 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Lazamataz
"I'm expecting we will finally get that wall along the mexican border -- only pointing at US. "

Over 100 posts and no one has pointed out the we have a Republican Candidate running for nomination for President that warned us not too long ago that that wall could, and likely would, be used that way.

Miss him yet?

Perhaps in a few years after Romney throws the race to the Oba-Führer.




(Too bad Ron Paul is the only candidate we have, making such points.)

112 posted on 05/22/2012 10:18:40 AM PDT by EasySt (Life is precious. Live it well.)
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To: Lazamataz

How about taxing the illegal aliens that enter the us before we start penalizing lawful acts by our own citizens? By the way these idiots dont know there already is an exit tax since 2008? And don’t forget Barbara Boxers bill rider to suspend passports if you owe IRS over a 50k...

http://www.isla-offshore.com/second-passport/usa-expats-exit-tax/

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/04/04/owe-the-irs-bill-would-suspend-passport-travel-rights-for-delinquent-taxpayers/


113 posted on 05/22/2012 10:20:24 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Lazamataz

Remember everyone mocked Ron Paul in the debate for saying he was against a border wall since it would be used to keep us in?

Looks like he was right, AGAIN!


114 posted on 05/22/2012 10:21:29 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: melancholy

” None of the Communist-wanna-bes can possibly answer the question: can you give one example of where Communism succeeded? “

They just want to be dictators. I doubt they believe communism works.


115 posted on 05/22/2012 10:23:18 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: txrefugee
There is no draft. Our military is a voluntary job. No one is forced to enlist or re-enlist.

So if the military is all voluntary, then patriotism is dead. Good to know.

116 posted on 05/22/2012 10:27:17 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: montanajoe

“Traitors renounce their citizenship and leave the USA..”

Good one Joe, America was founded by “traitors” who renounced their citizenship and left England.


117 posted on 05/22/2012 10:29:59 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: OldNavyVet

Thou shalt not covet

(to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another’s property.)

(Synonyms - aspire to, begrudge, choose, crave, desiderate, envy, fancy, hanker for, have eye on, have hots for, itch for, long for, lust after, spoil for, thirst for, want, wish for, yearn for, yen for)

Thou shalt not covet (or envy).


118 posted on 05/22/2012 10:52:48 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: sickoflibs

Boehner is by far the worst we have. He appears to be on Obama’s side.


119 posted on 05/22/2012 10:55:30 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: montanajoe

When I was a young man conservatives despised Americans who renounced their citizenship, and wished them all kinds of ill fortune.

Lennon wins—”Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too”


120 posted on 05/22/2012 11:26:52 AM PDT by ansel12 ( The first American vote for a man who believes that he will become literally God, an actual deity.)
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