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Remember Boris Johnson? Why should he have to pay taxes to a country he had no real connection to? What real purpose does that serve?
by wbl 9y ago
Remember Boris Johnson? Why should he have to pay taxes to a country he had no real connection to? What real purpose does that serve?
- toomuchtodo 9y agoThere is a solution to that: renounce your citizenship and remove your country’s obligation to you, removing your liability as a citizen.
- wbl 9y agoBoris Johnson couldn't do that until he paid huge amounts in penalties for a citizenship hr was unaware of. He consumed no US services. Why should he be taxed?
- toomuchtodo 9y agoIs that the gentleman who mangled housing in London and swindled the UK into voting for Brexit with lies (and then washed his hands of it all and walked away)? Hard to feel sorry for a person of such character.
- valuearb 9y agoIf you refuse to support of a basic human right because of the character of just one of the persons needing those rights, what does that say about you?
- toomuchtodo 9y agoTo be free from taxation is not a human right (nor taxation with representation, see: Puerto Rico). I believe that’s where we’re not on the same page. Society has a cost, and while the current structure isn’t perfect, it’s the least terrible solution we’ve attempted. We previously would take taxes by force remember.
- valuearb 9y agoWhose “we” friend? If you think it’s ok that someone who has never lived in a country can be taxed as a citizen against their will by that country, then you can’t believe in any individual rights.