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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by 1024core on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:13PM (#28076598)
Why doesn't the US reduce it to a flat tax? Say, $1000/year to send you your election ballot, and evacuate you in case something goes horribly wrong.
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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by javert on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:57PM (#28077972)
The US government doesn't work like that. There isn't some logical person making logical decisions.

For this change to occur, many senators and representatives would have to be directly and personally incentivized to make the change.

They aren't.

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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by mbg721 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:39PM (#28082713)
Moreover, they're incentivized to do the opposite. Expats aren't a sympathetic group to any major voting demographic.
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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by kingosticks on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:27PM (#28080110)
And how about they make this service opt-in. I was born in the US but I have had nothing to do with the place for 95% of my life and I don't want their help. Why must I fill out their paperwork every year or pay them money to opt-out (which I can't even do anymore because of the current backlog).
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