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Part of the requirement for renouncing is (or at least should be) that you have established citizenship somewhere else. Otherwise you would be considered stateless, which causes all kinds of problems.

I say “should be” because the US is one of the few attending countries that refused to sign the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

I don't think you can, there are some conventions around this. https://www.unhcr.org/what-we-do/protect-human-rights/ending-statelessness/un-conventions-statelessness

So unless you have a second one the conventions prevent them.

You must declare taxes even if living abroad

It's frustrating living in a state that is pursuing good values, and then we vote federally and lose to morons. What can I do? Move to these shitholes? There's a lot of possible improvements to the system, but we need to cross a threshold to get over to get that done and IDK if we can. I have young kids and grapple with uprooting them. The next couple of years will be very telling.

Come on, someone has to make up for the taxes the corporations aren't paying

Income taxes were unheard of in the revolution too. The feds weren't in everyone's business, by design. Just tariffs and duties and such for money. In the civil war they started income taxes, then cancelled them after the war. The restarted them in wwi, and kept them since.

Projection. The most represented class is the most undertaxed - the wealthy and the corpos

Eh, it's not the only country. There's one other.

"But wait, there's more!"

Looks like it really might have vanity for Rubio:

As Vice President J.D. Vance recalled at an event in December, the Journal reported, he was meeting with Trump, Rubio, and an unnamed third politician in the Oval Office when the president accused Vance and Rubio of having “shitty shoes.” Trump asked them all for their shoe size; Vance made sure to put in the record that he’s a size 13, while Rubio claimed to be an 11 and the third man a 7. The president then launched a sideways insult at the guy with the daintiest feet: “You know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.”

That the “locker-room talk” president would place an inordinate, genital-related premium on a man’s foot size was surely no surprise to Rubio, who has risen in GOP influence in direct proportion to his willingness to contort himself to Trump’s exact desires. It does not seem out of the realm of possibility, then, that Rubio would inflate his own shoe specs to impress Trump with his masculine bulk.

What I read was that Trump has been guessing the shoe sizes and people don't want to correct him.

Depends on treaties. If dual citizenship is allowed and tax liability is reciprocated then it could be a waste of money. But also I'm unsure whether you can ignore tax reporting and travel through the US on a foreign passport after they revoke your US passport.

If you want to go from Europe to south America you're almost certainly passing through a US hub, at least by air.

Insane you have to pay for the last interaction you have with the US

Yes. It is. Free would be better, but this really helps.

For real. Wake me when they're paying - in cash.