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its very typical for people to want their cake and eat it too. They want the benefits of having the US passport but don't want to pay for it.
by wnevets 11y ago
its very typical for people to want their cake and eat it too. They want the benefits of having the US passport but don't want to pay for it.
- cr1895 11y agoOr, consider that when you're born in the US you become a US citizen. There was a fuss in the Netherlands recently where some Dutch people who were born in the US but were only there very briefly as a baby, and as such lived a Dutch life in the Netherlands. The article I linked goes into how much of an absolute pain it is to renounce citizenship. Article in Dutch: http://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2044332-amerikaanse-belastingdienst-maakt-jacht-op-nederlanders.html http://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2044332-amerikaanse-belastin...
- AlgorithmicTime 11y agoIf you're born in America, you're American. It's very simple.
- davidw 11y agoThere are benefits to being a Japanese, French, German, Norwegian, Australian or whatever citizen, yet none of them pay taxes at home if they reside in the US. They pay taxes where they live and work.
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