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. ....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
“If you don’t like it here get the hell out...its a simple concept.”
Then why complicate it with restrictive taxation? You’re talking out of both sides of your mouth.
Yup, I screwed that one up.
Regardless, they’re still critters and should be treated as such.
And Republican House Leader Boehner came out in FAVOR of this tax.......
They are a bunch of fascists.
That can be enforced by what's called "EXIT VISA!"
An exit visa renders your passport meaningless and will prevent you from traveling until you satisfy certain conditions and obtain (pay fees to boot) permits and approval stamps from a number of departments that may take months if successful.
Going to the airport and boarding a plane to travel abroad would be a thing of the past because without those approvals the TSA/airline employees will throw you out of the airport.
We'd better get the bastards out of power on Nov. 6.
Let me get this straight. If there was no proposed tax you would would renounce your citizenship and leave. But the threat of a 30% tax is keeping you here?
Gimme a break..
What would happen if this problem was defined right. Instead of the proble being how do we stop them form leaving, we asked what to we have to do to get them to stay and how do we get more of them>
Obama is a big fan of straw men.
I suspect you and he have a lot in common.
See post #48. It's an oft used tactic called Financial Repression.
wiki:
Constitutional bans
The United States Constitution forbids legislative bills of attainder under Article I, Section 9. It was considered an excess or abuse by the British monarchy and Parliament. No bills of attainder have been passed since 1798 in the UK.[citation needed] Attainder as such was also a legal consequence of convictions in courts of law, but this ceased to be a part of punishment in 1870.[11] The provision forbidding state law bills of attainder, Article I, Section 10, reflects the importance that the framers attached to this issue.
Within the U.S. Constitution, the clauses forbidding attainder laws serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers, by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9; Clause 3 is "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed". The constitution of every State also expressly forbids bills of attainder. For example, Wisconsin's constitution Article I, Section 12 reads:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.
Contrast this with the subtly more modern variation of the Texas version: Article 1 (Titled Bill of Rights) Section 16, entitled Bills of Attainder; Ex Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made".
Traitors renounce their citizenship and leave the USA..
Then when they add to the flight tax the additional restriction of not being allowed to travel out of the country if you owe back taxes the gulag state is complete.
Fixed it!
Regards,
... and then the Soviet goes on to get it completely wrong, pretending he can read minds and assess motivations.
I never said a single thing about ME, Kommisar. I am objecting to the establishment of an exit control, inasmuch as exit controls expand quickly, and soon we become a country like your mother country, the USSR.
Would it help if it is considered a bribe?
Countries with exit controls are most often full police states, devoid of freedom.
We are a country without exit controls, right now. They seek to remedy that.
And some freepers like the concept.
The Feds are desperately worried some of the 50% of the population they uses as cash cows to help them fund their delusions are catching on...and leaving....
“Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Superman’s lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That’s a record number since the Internal Revenue Service began publishing a list of those who renounced in 1998. It’s also almost eight times more than the number of citizens who renounced in 2008, and more than the total for 2007, 2008 and 2009 combined.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/us-usa-citizen-renounce-idUSBRE83F0UF20120416
Even more alarming....in 1997 the list was ONLY 90 people renouncing...so that year, 2011, it was TWENTY times greater that in 1997...
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1997-01-30/html/97-2283.htm
Isn't there some old saying out there about people who forget history?
America means very little to me if it does not stand for liberty. It is still a country worth fighting for right now, but if we continue on the trajectory set forth by 0bama and the Democrats, unabated, America will be an anathema to liberty. And because America is large and powerful, it would become a menacing ogre.
Germany was once arguably the most economically developed, intellectual and culturally diverse nation in Europe during the beginnning of the 20th century. Jews had, for the most part, sucessfully assimilated with German culture for more than a century. Yet, by the early 1930s, Jews, even those that had fought in WW1 and those that had built up businesses, were shunned, denigrated and persecuted. What did these German Jews think about their country? Does anyone think that they should have been patriotic to the end?
The same story can be told about the bourgeois in 1917-1923 Russia, the wealthy and western influenced in Maoist China, or any freedom loving person in any totalitarian regime. The victims did not love their country because their country had been subsumed by the government and its leaders.
Okay. I take it back. You are not a Soviet.
Here's what Wikipedia says about the concept of the Exit Visa (or exit controls)
Some countries have a requirement that an individual obtain an exit visa (i.e., permit) to leave the country. This happens mostly in countries where there is political, economic or social turmoil that results in a rise in emigration.[22] Sometimes this requirement also applies to foreign nationals. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have an exit visa requirement, particularly for foreign workers. Hence at the end of a foreign worker's employment period, the worker must secure clearance from his/her employer stating that the worker has satisfactorily fulfilled the terms of his/her employment contract or that the worker's services are no longer needed. The exit visa can also be withheld if there are pending court charges that need to be settled or penalties that have to be meted out. The communist government in Nepal requires citizens leaving the country to work abroad to present an exit visa issued by the labor ministry. This document is called a labor permit and needs to be presented to immigration in order to leave the country. [23] During the fascist rule in Italy, an exit visa was required from 1922 to 1943. Nazi Germany required exit visas from 1933 until its collapse in 1945 .[24] The Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies required exit visas both for emigrants and for those who wanted to leave the USSR for some time. Uzbekistan is the last remaining former USSR country that still requires an exit visa (a visa is valid for a two year period).[25] There has been explicit UN criticism of this practice,[26] which can be a means of controlling political dissidents ("exit visa can be easily used to stop human rights defenders from leaving the country").[26] The last remaining ex-allied regime, Cuba, still requires an exit visa or "white card" to all citizens intending to travel abroad.[27][28] Some countries, such as Russia or Czech Republic,[29] require that an alien who needs a visa on entry be in possession of a valid visa upon exit. To satisfy this formal requirement, exit visas need sometimes to be issued. For example, Russia requires an exit visa if a visitor stays well past the expiration date of their visa. They must then extend their visa or apply for an exit visa and are not allowed to leave the country until they show a valid visa or have a permissible excuse for overstaying their visa (e.g., a note from a doctor or a hospital explaining an illness, missed flight, lost or stolen visa). In some cases, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can issue a Return-Home certificate that is valid for ten days from the embassy of the visitor's native country, thus eliminating the need for an exit visa.[30][31][32]
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