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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:59 pm Post subject: Eduardo escaped, USA pissed!! |
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Lovely drama from back home...
Facebook founder Eduardo Saverin wised up, got the heck out of the USA while the getting was good, has been living in Singapore, and has now renounced citizenship.
Back at home rabid senators are trying to come up with stepped up fear tactics so that none of the other prisons escape...
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/92889601/ |
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KimchiNinja
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DIsbell
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Good on Schumer. We deny all sorts of people entrance to the country; rich people who make a fortune and renounce citizenship to live in a tax haven don't deserve any better than migrant laborers. |
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The Sultan of Seoul
Joined: 17 Apr 2012
Location: right... behind.. YOU
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| DIsbell wrote: |
| Good on Schumer. We deny all sorts of people entrance to the country; rich people who make a fortune and renounce citizenship to live in a tax haven don't deserve any better than migrant laborers. |
+1
You can't enjoy the rights of citizenship if you're willing to pitch in the tax dollars like everyone else. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| The Sultan of Seoul wrote: |
| You can't enjoy the rights of citizenship if you're willing to pitch in |
What would be these wonderful "rights" of which you speak? |
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The Sultan of Seoul
Joined: 17 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| The Sultan of Seoul wrote: |
| You can't enjoy the rights of citizenship if you're willing to pitch in |
What would be these wonderful "rights" of which you speak? |
Living in the country, enjoying it's infrastructure, police and military protection for which other people are paying tax dollars are two very obvious ones that yourself, as an 'American Caucasian' should be aware of. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Police "protection" or harassment? An infrastructure he doesn't use?
Eduardo has described himself as a "world citizen" (same as I do), not property of the United States, I'm sure his free life in Singapore will be awesome.
I'm giving him a huge high-five from Seoul.  |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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You have the right to be tazed. If you give up this right, we'll just shoot you. And any money in your wallet will be confiscated as "drug money". We call it drug money because that's what we use it to buy.
You have the right to extremely overpriced healthcare. You, in some cases, may have the right to visit a hospital for a tonsil extraction and receive a sex change operation instead. You have the right for hilarity to ensue.
You definately have the right to die a horrible death from an untreatable terminal disease in unbearable pain because if medicines are given to alleviate your symptoms, you might become a drug addict. You have the right to be billed for these medicines in any case. Hilarity will ensue, but not for you.
You have the right to die in a meaningless conflict somewhere overseas that has no impact on your native land for years before you will be able to legally buy a beer. You have the right to have billions of your tax dollars spent to improve life in nearly every country on the face of the earth but your own, so that the people in those countries can afford to better hate you. Meanwhile, the average time to procure new employment is 40 weeks.
You will have the right to unfettered reports concerning the most vapid celebrities and the most highly compensated politicians on the planet. You will also have the right to be bombarded with debate concerning the most frivolous fringe issues ever concieved by any society. God Bless America and Kim Kardashian! |
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The Sultan of Seoul
Joined: 17 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
Police "protection" or harassment? An infrastructure he doesn't use?
Eduardo has described himself as a "world citizen" (same as I do), not property of the United States, I'm sure his free life in Singapore will be awesome.
I'm giving him a huge high-five from Seoul. |
Okay then 'world citizen' if you're ever in Baihran or some other 3rd world hell hole and detained against your will without trial with zero evidence for a crime you had no part in, I assume you wouldn't need to call the US embassy (which is funded of course by taxes) or expect any help from the US govt?
You're fos and you know it. |
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radcon
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| Good for Eduardo. He wasn't a real American anyway. Born in Brazil and naturalized later on. I dont like the notion that countries own people. He is still supposed to pay an "exit tax" for renouncing citizenship. What the hell kind of crap is that. "Im leaving your country" " oh but you need to pay us so you can leave?" Eff that noise. |
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northway
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| Good for Eduardo. He wasn't a real American anyway. Born in Brazil and naturalized later on. I dont like the notion that countries own people. He is still supposed to pay an "exit tax" for renouncing citizenship. What the hell kind of crap is that. "Im leaving your country" " oh but you need to pay us so you can leave?" Eff that noise. |
So naturalized citizens aren't real Americans? Stay classy. |
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comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| The Sultan of Seoul wrote: |
Okay then 'world citizen' if you're ever in Baihran or some other 3rd world hell hole and detained against your will without trial with zero evidence for a crime you had no part in, I assume you wouldn't need to call the US embassy (which is funded of course by taxes) or expect any help from the US govt?
You're fos and you know it. |
Here's the thing. When Eduardo was a U.S. citizen, he paid his taxes and enjoyed the benefits (like embassy services). Now that he's not, he doesn't pay taxes and doesn't enjoy the benefits.
How is this complicated or unjust? We are no longer peasants, subjects or serfs under a monarchy or empire. We -should- be free to leave our home countries without financial or other restriction. |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:51 am Post subject: |
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He can't set foot in America again?
Oh no
What a world |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| The Sultan of Seoul wrote: |
| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| The Sultan of Seoul wrote: |
| You can't enjoy the rights of citizenship if you're willing to pitch in |
What would be these wonderful "rights" of which you speak? |
Living in the country, enjoying it's infrastructure, police and military protection for which other people are paying tax dollars are two very obvious ones that yourself, as an 'American Caucasian' should be aware of. |
You've obviously never been to Singapore, which is where that Facebook guy went. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Gorf wrote: |
He can't set foot in America again?
Oh no
What a world |
Yeah, how can he go on living.
The guy's a billionaire. If he wants to see his friends or family which live in the US, he'll send his private jet to pick them up. |
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