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Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by rahimnathwani on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @03:53PM (#11075890)
"If you have a Euro passport, you might as well torch your American one."

Even if that were true, what proportion of US citizens living outside the US (the class to which my comment and the immediate parent referred) have a 'Euro passport'?

Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by fapjacks on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:47AM (#11078798)
That doesn't make what I said less true. You speak to counter the claim of downsides to having an American passport, I'm providing evidence of harm to your livelihood in some parts of the world for having an American passport (versus any other kind of passport).
Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by rahimnathwani on Saturday February 13, 2016 @03:58AM (#11093307)
"You speak to counter the claim of downsides to having an American passport"

No, I spoke to counter this claim: "If you don't intend to return to the USA there are no benefits to US citizenship, only downsides."

I did not comment on the downsides. I spoke only of the benefits, which the parent comment said did not exist.

Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:16PM (#11076046)
Very, very small, and only those who've lived in the EU long enough to obtain citizenship.