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Which is doubly disgusting, since the US is one of the only countries that double-taxes its expats.

• pokemongoaway 8y ago
  Exactly! And then spend barely any of that tax money on what real Americans want!
  • T-R 8y ago
    To the extent this comment can be construed as anything but content-less partisan dog-whistling, it's pretty off the mark here. Obnoxious as this particular measure is, it was passed as part of the funding for a, relatively speaking, bipartisan infrastructure bill focusing on highways and rail. It's hard to imagine what "real Americans", whoever that's meant to imply, would rather it be spent on.
    • pokemongoaway 8y ago
      I'm guilty of being obnoxious? It sounds like you could push that slippery slope until "obnoxious" is simply "any opinion I don't agree with." My comment quite effectively brings up the issue of majority of Americans not wanting to pay taxes for most of the things that taxes are actually going to - we are not being represented effectively. You're the one making this a partisan issue. Just look at some of the polls - or just how many Americans are using other country's infrastructures to avoid excessive US taxes. On topic with this article is the fact that US is collecting taxes worldwide on earnings not even being made in the US - by people who are merely US citizens and not residents! If my comment were so contentless, then you wouldn't have the authoritarian reply that I'm merely whistling for my underclass of "dogs."