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Liberals already jumping the citizen-ship
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09/07/2012 18:43:58
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
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>>I think there should be a law that if a US citizen abandons their citizenship (especially a rich one like this b$tch) they should never be allowed to enter the US again.

The issue is that US citizens have to pay tax on their worldwide income. If she also has European citizenship and is living in Europe there will be all sorts of cross-border taxation issues, imputation and a whole load of complexity- believe me. This may simply be a pragmatic business decision along the standard "it's all about me" lines to be expected of the wealthy in 2012: allegiances and statuses are to be assessed purely according to their financial impact on me. The idea that citizenship may have a greater moral or societal value is only for the middle class scrabblers.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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