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Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality by withinboredom on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:43AM (#28875011)
Just guessing, but I assume the Union wanted to continue to tax the Confederates who no longer lived in the Union because even though the succeeded from the Union, they were still Union citizens by birth.
Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality by sterlind on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:15AM (#28875214)
seems unlikely. the Union didn't recognize the legitimacy of Confederate secession (hence, you know, the war.) the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to rebel states, as an example. they may have had trouble collecting taxes, what with the bullets and all, but amending the tax code doesn't help that.
Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality by withinboredom on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:22AM (#28875260)
Someone actually expanded on it down the page as a way to punish deserters.
Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality by voisin on Saturday October 16, 2021 @10:24AM (#28888081)
…which is exactly what the US criticizes Eritrea for doing with its citizenship based taxation! The only other country in the world to do this.