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Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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Renouncing? Won't that make it harder for the others to vote better leaders into office?
Isn't this what Trump wants?
The US is one of only two countries in the world to tax the foreign earnings of its expats (the other is Eritrea). They’re so annoying about it on the finance side that many foreign banks refuse to give accounts to US expats. Renunciation is the only way to avoid that mess.
The US also takes a big exit tax on the wealth of anyone renouncing.
Yep. You're fleeced until your last American breath and the IRS will freeze your passport if you dont hand over your money. It's kidnap and ransom for not making extortion payments.
But the IRS is like "Sorry. Hands tied :(" going after all those Swiss bank accounts and offshore shells within shells where 0% goes to taxes.
What if I renounce after leaving and taking all my money with me first? How going tax me then?
It used to be that you have to pay a big fat one-time fee to renounce, as kind of a substitute for all of your future tax payments.
I think they changed the rules on that recently, though.
I can't help but sympathize with people who think "fuck it, gonna focus on my own happiness." Life is short, and normal people's ability to have a say has been sabotaged.
That and when your compatriots can't do the simplest of asks why would you blame them.
I think that's kind of what got us into this mess in the first place.
I don't sympathize for this reason, but I do understand.
Depends. The cost of moving out and renouncing is not cheap so the folks left would be a rather angry working class
You think? I've never made more than 50k a year even when married and we both worked full time. My sis, not to hold grudges or shit, works 20hrs and wakes up at noon and gets paid 100k a year. All because of luck and good timing. I literally can't afford food, rent, heathcare, not to mention my cat with all the bullshit going on.
The sad thing is I had a American dream that one day I wouldn't be suffering as a wage slave forever.
"Look at those lousy traitors! They never really loved America anyway."
That's how MAGats will play it off.
Honestly, I'm not sure I'm going to correct them.
It is, but you can't blame the scared people running out of the burning building for not saving the children still trapped inside.
Especially not when it's so clear there are others trying to save them.
When you see yourself as a victim, you become one.
Well, it’s not just that the building is burning. It’s also that about a third of the building residents have joined an absolutely insane cult, and really enjoy the smell of gasoline, and so have left open containers of gasoline around their apartments.
Seriously: as the first guy said, what’s happening now is a symptom of a deeply embedded, long-running progression of societal metastacization that is impossible to ignore at this point.
Yeah I love in maga central. It's the people who are the problem. I can almost always identify the magats just based on their shitty behavior. Not all people are like that around here but the magats make themselves obvious, and they're unavoidable.