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Stoll: Right To Leave U.S. Could Be Trumped by 30% Tax
Newsmax ^ | Monday, May 21, 2012 09:35 PM | By: Ira Stoll

Posted on 05/22/2012 6:50:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz

Call it the return of the Reichsfluchtsteuer.

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“I think Schumer can probably find the legislation to do this. It existed in Germany in the 1930s and Rhodesia in the ‘70s and in South Africa as well,” Norquist said. “He probably just plagiarized it and translated it from the original German.”

The Reichsfluchsteuer, or Reich flight tax, that German government imposed on Jews trying to flee in the 1930s was 25 percent; Schumer and his Senate colleague Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, want 30 percent. Give Schumer some credit for creativity.

According to Norquist, the New Yorker did not just plagiarize and translate. He also raised the rate. ....

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To: Lazamataz
Thous Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Goods.

Those words should be inscribed in every home, office and legislative chamber on Earth.

41 posted on 05/22/2012 7:16:50 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: Lazamataz

When is Freedom not Freedom? Look around....


42 posted on 05/22/2012 7:17:35 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: montanajoe
Oh, go to your parade, would ya?


43 posted on 05/22/2012 7:18:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
You seem to believe that all money rightfully belongs to the government.

I am no communist but you are hypocrite. So IYO a draft dodger in Canada is a noble person to you? Taxes suck, everyone pays them. He should pay his taxes and leave, no special levies should apply. Actually I hate all income taxes and think tariffs and an NSRT should replace them.

44 posted on 05/22/2012 7:18:57 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SpaceBar

It got to the point that the only investment allowed to Jews in Germany were government bonds....................................


45 posted on 05/22/2012 7:19:53 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.)
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To: Lazamataz

Wow. Some of the posts on this thread are absolutely appalling on a conservative website no less! Class envy rearing its head once again. NO conservative I know would be in favor of ANY of this Schumer/Boner nonsense!


46 posted on 05/22/2012 7:20:30 AM PDT by battletank
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To: Lazamataz
If you don't like it here get the hell out...its a simple concept.
47 posted on 05/22/2012 7:21:30 AM PDT by montanajoe
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To: Lazamataz
FINANCIAL REPRESSION:

1. Capital Controls - includes directed lending to government by captive domestic audiences (such as pension funds, banks, etc.)

2. Tightly controlled interest rates, artificially low, while maintaining a higher rate of inflation,

3. Regulation of cross-border capital movements, and a tighter connection between government and banks.

48 posted on 05/22/2012 7:22:30 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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To: Lazamataz
Isn't this a direct tax? If so, does it comply with Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitutuion?

"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers..."



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

49 posted on 05/22/2012 7:23:31 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: farlander
You do realize that in a free society people should be free to leave?

Funny, if alive today, I wonder how Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee would answer your question.

50 posted on 05/22/2012 7:24:00 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

“Taxes suck, everyone pays them.”

WTH! No. Everyone does NOT pay taxes. Which is a large part of the problem.


51 posted on 05/22/2012 7:24:04 AM PDT by battletank
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; central_va
central_va's good people. I think he's just missing the big picture about how it STARTS here, but in a very short period of time, becomes an absolute and across-the-board obstacle to travelling out of the US. This is the oldest trick in the totalitarian playbook. China, Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea... they all do or did this.

And now it appears to be our turn.

52 posted on 05/22/2012 7:24:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)
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To: OldNavyVet
Just wondering ... Where is it in scripture that envy is a vice?

Just did a Bible search for "envy". Got 35 matches.

53 posted on 05/22/2012 7:25:05 AM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Lazamataz

Apparently Schumer fits into another category from the early days of the Reich.

He has Lebensunwertes Leben, “a life unworthy of life.”

Though he would put Republicans and conservatives into this category, the real dehumanization is in those who dehumanize. Just as it was in Nazi days, it was the Nazis who were the subhumans, not those they called subhuman.


54 posted on 05/22/2012 7:25:25 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: montanajoe
If you don't like it here get the hell out...its a simple concept.

On one hand, you say that.

On the other hand, you would establish controls to prevent that.

Let me ask you in the language you understand, then: Действительно ли Вы являетесь сумасшедшими, введены в заблуждение, или пьяны?

55 posted on 05/22/2012 7:27:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)
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To: Lazamataz

I don’t think M-joe is arguing in favor of a special expat levy, which IMO could be a bill of attainder which is unconstutional. He is just saying he should pay his taxes and GTFO. The Billionare and the pauper are free to leave.


56 posted on 05/22/2012 7:27:55 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: montanajoe
If someone is renouncing their citizenship and leaving the US because of taxes, opposition to war or for whatever reason all I can say is don't let the door hit you in the ass. Cant feel much sympathy if the get clipped by a 30% tax on the way out.

Yeah. Same for those that leave California for a lower tax state like Texas. Charge them a 30% tax. That'll show em.

57 posted on 05/22/2012 7:27:55 AM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: montanajoe

“Cant feel much sympathy if the get clipped by a 30% tax on the way out..

I agree, Comrade! Dissent should be punished! /s


58 posted on 05/22/2012 7:28:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: Lazamataz

They didn’t let their subjects travel freely out of the country either!


59 posted on 05/22/2012 7:28:30 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: central_va

I think he’s a secret Soviet squirrel.


60 posted on 05/22/2012 7:29:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)
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