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Honestly?
I hope he tries
She wealthy and still a household name. She can pay to fight, it would make it undeniable he's abusing power.
And she literally doesn't even live in this country. Absolutely zero danger at all, and she was already saying she might not come back.
What we need to do is start a campaign talking about how he's not smart enough or brave enough to try and revoke her citizenship.
Dude is easily manipulated.
I keep wondering if you could get him to do something truly stupid to himself this way.
The question is what kind of stupidity that would even be. He's already done so many things that if anyone else has even tried, they'd have shot themselves in the foot.
The US is one of the only countries that still requires citizens living overseas to file and pay taxes. It’d be great if he further crippled the US war machine this way.
That gets thrown around all the time...
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion
But the exception to it is pretty rational and covers most people.
It's like how billionaires convince poor people that can't afford to retire that a tax only 2% of people will ever pay on inheritance is a pressing issue and society doesn't deserve their cut.of problematic levels of generational wealth.
Like, do you understand how ripe this is for manipulation by the wealthy to turn public opinion against the wealthiest few who pay these taxes?
C'mon man...
It's 2025, we need to learn to recognize this shit on our own, misinformation is going to keep getting worse.
Quick edit:
For clarity, you do still need to file federal taxes every year, even though you have zero withholdings and still owe $0.
But people get in trouble for not filing, same as people who live in Alaska. There's no debt for missed payments, but there may be fines/consequences anyways
Do you know how much expats have to pay just to align their taxes and file? Only country to tax on citizenship. It's ridiculous that it's even allowed internationally.
I do know...
What's weird is you didn't even click the link or even seem to read my comment:
America has bigger problems than migrant workers in other countries who make well North of six figures.
You're not getting any pity from the average American over "filing fees" when you can do that shit on TurboTax.
You still need to file... It's complex as shit. It's not an easy filing with turbo tax when you have a company, partners who are not dual citizens etc. I'm by no means rich but I shouldn't have to file taxes where I'm not residing. And if I wanted to get rid of my citizenship it's also expensive and you have to have filed for the past 7 years. It's not about pity. It's about what is ethical. And being the only country to do this it isn't ethical.
There's a ton of intricacies to it though, for example if you live in Canada you can't invest in one of the two retirement accounts without paying some pretty hefty fees. Primary residence are only excluded for a relatively small amount (might be enough if you live in a small town, forget it if you live in a major metropolitan area past a small one bedroom condo), and the division with a partner isn't 50/50 like it is in Canada so your Canadian partner potentially looses a ton of money. Increases the cost of accountants and personal finance advisors by like three folds. Etc, etc...
I get that trying to get rich people to not use tax heavens is good. But this affects regular people who haven't lived in the country for years, decades, as well as their non American families.
I know this first hand, and second hand, as my immediate and extended family is all sort of cross border intertwined. It's a real pain in the ass.