[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.

[Wissa]

That is if they find out about you.

The US government can put a lot of economic pressure on the countries that are stable enough that the rich might want to move there. Failing to pay the US government their bribe for allowing you to leave the country is the equivalent of some criminal cheating the mob boss.

Sad that the USA has fallen to that level.