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I want to sell my citizenship and think it is anti-capitalism (read: terrorists, apparently) that we cannot do so. The going rate was set at $1M by POTUS.
Wow, another win for the pedo party. Over a quarter of a million less people to deport, imprison, and eventually kill.
I wonder where they are going to since it is famous that only the Americas really accept immigrants.
Sounds like everyone is happy, America wants to deport them they want to leave.
pegged the outflow at around 150,000 people in 2025.
Before 2009, a typical year saw 200 to 400 people renounce their citizenship. By 2025, that figure was nearing 5,000, with more renunciations expected this year because fees to do so have dropped steeply.
Wut. Everything else I've read said the fees to expatriate are enormous. Both a percent of net worth and fixed fees.
anyone have more info on these fees "dropping steeply"?
Iirc the fee has been lowered from 2.5-4k down to maybe 500 USD.
Did the percent net worth get lowered too?
If you're talking about the "exit tax", it only applies if your net worth exceeds $2M.
Would if I could.
Same. Spouse and I have discussed it. Light research shows it being too expensive for us. Kids don't want it either. Sigh.
You can probably find a job as an English teacher in East Asia
Not if I want to keep my kids.
Same. My wife wouldn't come. She wants to stay.
Find a new wife. Fortunately there's plenty abroad.
I'm quite fond of her and the kids though.
Stay frosty out there. Legal loopholes and policy exceptions abound. ☝🏼
Never in my life had I considered leaving the US, but last year my wife and I started on our back up plans. We’ve now got irons in the fire elsewhere. If Republicans don’t lose power in the next two years, we will be gone. And, with the US’s global taxation regime, we may have to renounce our citizenship too. The nice thing is you can renounce and still claim your social security in retirement.
You should plan for the possibility that last part won't be true for long. If these thieves in power stick around, they will drain every piece of money they can back into their own hands.
Amazing to assume Social Security will still be a thing....
Now it all makes sense: So the wall that orange Fuck wanted on the border with Mexico was meant to keep all the Americans inside, just like the Berlin Wall used to do between East Germany and West Germany.
Remember the Berlin Wall was more to keep people in, than the keep the west out.
Yes, that’s the point of my comment, albeit a joking one: The absurd wall that the orange pedo built can now serve the same purpose: keeping U.S. citizens trapped in the hellhole that the U.S. has become.
No. The camps are bad because he wants people to voluntarily deport themselves.
Rubio wants to shut down all of the Mexican consulates because of the CIA agent incident. It doesn't even make sense.
I'm mid-application for moving down there.
Yeah how will that go when there are 1.6 million Americans living there
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