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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by CrazyCatDog on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:33PM (#11614133)
Revoking citizenship is a costly exercise. It was previously subsidized by all tax-payers, now it isn't.

Not that it matters to the price/cost of doing it, but what do you think are the most common reasons for forfeiting US citizenship? I suspect it's tax-evasion.

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by the_mitsuhiko on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:28PM (#11614701)
> what do you think are the most common reasons for forfeiting US citizenship? I suspect it's tax-evasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by themartorana on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:42PM (#11617737)
Despite their lack of personal or business ties to the United States, accidental Americans have the same U.S. tax filing and payment obligations...

There's a business model! Claim someone is a citizen, boom they owe taxes!

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by 2a0c40 on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:02PM (#11614435)
Please read this: http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2011/12/14/about-the-isaac-brock...
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by themartorana on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:48PM (#11617764)
That's fucked up.
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