https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/10/23/u-s-has-worlds-highest-fee-to-renounce-citizenship/#5514bd9547de Oct 23, 2015, 08:59am
>The U.S. was criticized for hiking its fee to renounce by 422%, from $450 to $2,350. The U.S. State Department said raising the fee from $450 to $2,350 for renunciation of U.S. citizenship was about demand and paperwork. Perhaps, but American expatriations grew rather than declined. And the $2,350 fee is more than twenty times the average level in other high-income countries. The State Department has complained about all the extra workload they have to process people who are on their way out.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikepatton/2015/04/24/national-debt-tops-18-trillion-guess-how-much-you-owe/#7747f0477920 Apr 24, 2015, 02:19pm
>When you break this down to an amount per taxpayer, the numbers are substantial. The chart below contains this data which shows how it has more than doubled over the past 11 years, rising from $72,051 per taxpayer in 2004 to $154,161 today.
Not sure if correlated
sauce https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/capitalism-america-how-dismal-decimal-robbing-americans-blind
They even tax you on the way out. What are they going to do if you don't pay their extortion to bail on American Citizenship? Jail you?
This timeline needs to burn to the ground and start over.
Look at japan in the first link
It's $0 to leave
Jamaica it's around $1000
Bottom line it's just immoral to charge people to renounce their citizenship. I mean, you don't renounce because you love your country in the first place, there's a sense of being wronged, it's the equivalent of a fucking divorce
Most American's can't even afford a $500 bill. Charging them $2,500 to leave only serves one real purpose - preventing their ability to afford it.
Fuck Tyrants. America has become a shithole Country.
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