“...3,000 Americans around the world renounced their citizenship last year. ...”
That’s 3,000 people I won’t ever call “My Countrymen”, and 3,000 runaways we can live without.
I’ll stay here, beside my brothers and sisters, and do whatever I can - whatever small part I have to play - to make it better.
Wherever they are - You can KEEP them. They’ll likely desert there if/when the going gets tough too.
“That’s 3,000 people I won’t ever call “My Countrymen”, and 3,000 runaways we can live without.”
It’s usually a little more complicated than that. I am an Israeli, born in Israel, grew up in Israel, served in the IDF, who happened to have two parents who also had USA citizenship, making me pretty much an accidental citizen of the USA.
Should I have paid taxes to the USA for my services in the IDF, prior to ever stepping foot here? I didn’t and won’t.
Now, I am currently working in the USA, teaching USA pilots how to use certain military hardware. I happily pay USA income taxes (and don’t pay Israeli taxes, which doesn’t require me to).
When I go home? Forget American taxes.
Who are your “brothers and sisters”? The Dearborn, MI muslim who hates you, the El Paso, TX illegal who hates you or the Maimi, FL Cuban who hates you?
My circle of brothers & sisters keeps getting smaller & smaller. They don’t always fall into the category of “my Countrymen” either.
Multiculturalism kills nations....we are witnessing it. I’m feeling it.
“Wherever they are - You can KEEP them. They’ll likely desert there if/when the going gets tough too.”
My son was born in Texas and will always be a Texan US Citizen. He has lived/worked in England for over 25 years. When he began working there, he didn’t make enough money to pay US taxes because you can make up to a certain amount of income before the US wants taxes. He did have to file a return even though he owed no taxes, and from that early time, has an accountant to work up his tax return. After he became very successful making much more money, he gladly paid US taxes on top of British taxes, because Texas is his true home.
If he doesn’t come back to live before retirement, and I think he will, he will retire here anyway - not in England. His Texas driver’s license is still in effect and I’ve already transferred the ownership of my house to him which will take effect when I am no longer here.
Not long ago when he was here, he was talking about Piers Morgan, (whom film makers like my son, despise), and Morgan’s attack on guns. He said he has heard his English friends talk about our guns in the US and says they simply don’t understand why we won’t give them all up. He said, “They just don’t get it.”
He would never give up his US citizenship and I can’t imagine a US citizen doing that.