Citizenship By Tom Alciere September 21, 2014
Doesn't that mean that the Kenyan government has authority to claim President Obama as one of its citizens born overseas, and then impose income tax and bank account reporting requirements on him, the same as the U.S. Government is doing to people overseas? Last year, Senator Ted Cruz found out he was still a Canadian citizen. Many persons are learning now that they are U.S. citizens, liable to criminal charges and devastating financial penalties for failing to report their income and bank accounts to the U.S. Treasury. To these people, the U.S.A. is a foreign country, so why should they pay taxes? Local discovery of somebody's U.S.A. citizenship, in some countries, puts the person in extreme danger. They can either tell their spouse why they are making a trip to the capital (to visit the U.S. embassy to renounce citizenship) or make the trip without explaining, which does tend to annoy some spouses. The absurdity here is the idea that the U.S. has some right to tax a person just because U.S. law classifies the person as a U.S. citizen. If the government of Paraguay were to pass a law declaring everybody born on the 29th of February on a leap year is a citizen of Paraguay, does that entitle them to tax U.S. citizens in the United States who were born that day? The boundaries of the United States are the boundaries of the United States. Tom Alciere Received September 18, 2014 - Published September 21, 2014
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