[Publius6961]

If you are a US citizen and leave the US, you are subject to income taxes for 10 (?) years. You must pay your taxes regardless of where you live, where you make money, and where you park your money.

I think that that whole direction for the discussion is stupid.

What are they gonna do? Open SEIU and goon squads in every foreign country to "get you?"

[Jack Black]

If you are a US citizen and leave the US, you are subject to income taxes for 10 (?) years. You must pay your taxes regardless of where you live, where you make money, and where you park your money.

Says them. But, really, the USA has no ability to force outher countries to follow our laws vis-a-vis former citizens of the USA.

The Soviet Union considered the skills it's athletes and artists had to be the property of the USSR. I'm sure they had all sorts of thing that the many artists who defected during the Cold War were supposed to do to make up their bills to the USSR. We didn't honor those laws. Why should these other countries care about our extra-territorial claims. We are becoming a pariah nation, like the USSR was.

[laxcoach]

I think that that whole direction for the discussion is stupid.

It's not stupid. I am pointing out that under federal law, your income potential is the property of the federal government.

What are they gonna do? Freeze your foreign bound assets and make you come to them. Arrest you the second you step on US soil to visit family. etc. That is if they find out about you.