Posted on 07/11/2011 7:53:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“In the US, the government now requires all citizens to have a passport in order to pass the border, even when driving into Mexico or Canada. Obtaining a passport, however, is neither free nor guaranteed. You must apply, pay an ever-increasing fee, and wait for weeks to be approved and receive it. “
You should not be required to provide a passport to leave. The only thing they should be doing for people leaving is making sure they are not wanted criminals.
Is this article a joke?
Since the taxes from the liberal states went to the conservative ones it is only fair that the people be allowed to follow their taxes.
Its only agains’t the law if you get caught. LOL!!
A tip when you apply for a passport is to ask for the passport with lots of visa pages. I had to have pages added to my passport for $81. It doesn’t cost any more the passport with more pages.
I worked in the hinterlands of China in the fall and winter of ‘76 - ‘77. That’s exactly how it was to cross the bridge over the Yangtze River from the Yunnan Province to the Szechuan Province. I walked under the bridge along the riverbank one day and got stopped by a squad of 16 year old PLA cadets. My interpreter and I were interrogated for about an hour before they let us go.
Yes, coming soon the US the way things are headed.
That’s only if any one of the following applies:
Your annual tax bill for the past 5 years has been over $139,000
Your net worth in assets is over $2million
You cannot certify that you have met your tax obligation for the 5 years prior to renouncing your citizenship.
This is all the fault of Mark Rich, who absconded to Spain leaving behind a huge tax bill.
It won’t apply to the vast majority of you who want to get out while the getting’s good. Ask me how I know.
I’m from BC originally and I used to have multiple American girlfriends in WA state, and only needed a driver’s license to drive thru. Buy booze at Cost Cutter, and milk/eggs to show the idiot canadian border guard that I did NOT buy booze but ONLY milk/eggs.
How do you know?
How about requiring a PASSPORT from those who want to relocate from a liberal to a conservative state?
Gee, how about requiring a passport from those trying to enter the U.S.?
What if you do not have the info to the questions?
Haw... how can these PIs find such long lost information as one’s mother’s perinatal medical treatment? When that happened decades ago, if it happened at all, likely in the care of physicians now deceased who kept private records on paper and likely did not even involve insurance companies. This is another bureaucratic effup and once enough Congressbeasts learn about it, it will be dead.
Doubtless due to treaties. Otherwise one would expect Canadians to be manning the US side of checkpoints, and vice versa.
“There may come a day when TPTB figure out (much to their dismay) that I’m not trapped here with them - they’re trapped here with ME.”
Excellent. You have a spot on our Committee of Correspondence team if you want it.
I’d be honored, sergeantdave.
>Haw... how can these PIs find such long lost information as ones mothers perinatal medical treatment?
If that’s the case, then how could the government prove someone not only lied, but willfully did so on one of these forms?
To say otherwise is to presume guilt and place the onus not on the accuser but the accused.
>When that happened decades ago, if it happened at all, likely in the care of physicians now deceased who kept private records on paper and likely did not even involve insurance companies.
That only adds to the difficulty of the PROSECUTION thereof.
>This is another bureaucratic effup and once enough Congressbeasts learn about it, it will be dead.
I would hope; but given that people weren’t hanged for saying “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it” I doubt that this minor bureaucratic power-play will garner any attention.
"You coulda heard a pin drop when Tommy stopped and locked the door." -Kenny Rogers - Coward of the County
My ex in-laws.
They told the IRS to pound sand and will never come back to this country.
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