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Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by mpweiher on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @07:50AM (#11072363)
Non-enforcement of draconian laws is the problem. Especially if actually following those laws is difficult to impossible.

It means that your fate is not decided by the law, but by arbitrary decisions of random officials. It is the opposite of rule of law.

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Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by Chathamization on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:07AM (#11073611)
This is a pretty huge problem in the US, though it doesn't get talked about much. The people who do suffer the penalties often get smeared so that people think this isn't a problem and couldn't happen to them ("It's like having Al Capone go to jail for tax evasion.").
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