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It's easier to shake down non-voting overseas residents for money than it is to require GE to pay fair taxes, so ... there you go. Gotta pay for those missiles
by Vivtek 15y ago
It's easier to shake down non-voting overseas residents for money than it is to require GE to pay fair taxes, so ... there you go. Gotta pay for those missiles somehow, after all.
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- _delirium 15y agoOverseas U.S. citizens can vote in federal-level elections, including for Senator/Representative of the location they last lived in the US.
- msbarnett 15y agoThis presumes that all overseas citizens ever lived in the US, which isn't the case.
- _delirium 15y agoAh, that one's trickier. It looks like, for 19 states, but not the other 31, you can register in the state if your parents would be eligible to register (i.e. because it's either where they currently live, or where they last lived before moving abroad): http://www.fvap.gov/reference/nvr-res.html http://www.fvap.gov/reference/nvr-res.html
- ams6110 15y agoGE did pay fair taxes. They did what the law allowed them to do. Would you not?
- Estragon 15y agoAnd what do you think would happen to a politician who tried to change the laws which allowed them to get away with that?