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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by tzs on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:48AM (#21013376)
There are enough US citizens abroad to justify about 7 or 8 members of the House of Representatives, but how would you allocate them?

There are enough in Mexico, and enough in Canada, and maybe enough in the Philippines to have one Representative for each of those.

The rest, though, are sufficiently spread out that when you group enough different countries together to get enough US citizens for a Representative, that Representative will have such a diverse group of constituents with such diverse concerns that it is not clear the Representative could actually effectively represent them.

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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by dcolkitt on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:18AM (#21013501)
Maybe just allocate them through proportional representation?

Seems like that would pretty much fit the problem of representing diverse sub-groups naturally. For example say the demographic of "student-age backpackers teaching English overseas" was about 20% of the expat population. Then all else being equal you'd expect candidates who best represented this group to garner about 20% of the vote totals, and therefore gain 1-2 seats.

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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by andylynch on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:15AM (#21013488)
Maybe the US could look to France again - since they do just this in their National Assembly, and also have representatives for citizens aboard in the Senate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituencies_for_French_re...
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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by fhrow4484 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:38AM (#21013583)
Maybe France could not look at the US and also start taxing citizens everywhere in the world: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec... (french source)
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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by cm2187 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:13AM (#21014307)
That’s pretty bad, you could end up with two countries claiming you are fiscally resident in their country at the same time.

France has actually considered taxing French citizens abroad like the US. It comes regularly during presidential campaigns. I think the last serious attempt was Hollande. They backed down because it would require to renegotiate every tax treaty and they didn’t want to open that door.

But I think it will happen one day.

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