Poll of the Day > A Record 6045 AMERICANS have GIVEN UP their CITIZENSHIP because of TRUMP!!!

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Full Throttle
10/30/20 9:47:10 PM
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Would you ever give up citizenship from your country to move to another?




A record 6045 AMERICANS have paid the 2350 smackers for the expatriation fee to the feds to FOREVER give up their right to travel freely to live and travel in the United States!!

The 2020 figure represents a 234% increase compared to the first 9 months last year as in 2019, 1811 Americans renounced their citizenships through September and by the end of that year, it grew to 2072

The previous record for most citizenship renunciation was set in 2016 when there were 5411 and that number has already surpassed that before the end of this year

In the past decade, more than 37,000 Americans filed paperwork to give up citizenship

There has a been a huge interest in 2020 in Americans looking to live elsewhere in the world where figures were in decline in 2017 but then went up after Trump won

The record number of this is the tip of the iceberg as a lot of embassies and consulates abroad stopped making renunciation appointments this spring due to COVID-19 as Alistar Bambridge said the majority of these cases were because of Trump

While polls show Trump is likely to lose to Joe Biden, the expats can't bear the thought of 4 more years as he said these are willing to give up their citizenship so they wouldn't be linked to his political policies

Bambridge said "There are some US citizens so desperate to give up their citizenship that they are booking holidays to the Bahamas and Caicos Islands or other far off places"

The other people giving up citizenship are those avoiding the burdensome taxation laws as the US is only one of 2 countries in the world that taxes citizens regardless where they live. The other is Eritrea

Expats who don't provide documentation face stiff penalties from the Internal Revenue Service as the government cracks down on money laundering and tax evasion.

Tina Turner is known to have given up her citizenship in 2016 after marrying a Switzerland man as Chinese-born Jet Li gave up his american citizenship in 2009 and moved to Singapore with his daughters
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson gave up his American citizenship to run for Prime Minister as he was born in NYC in 1964 but moved to the UK with his family in 1969

Would you ever give up citizenship from your country?

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Zeus
10/30/20 10:03:59 PM
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There's literally nothing supporting the claim it was "due to Trump." People give up their citizenship for all sorts of reasons, although the most common circumstance is when they've already been living abroad for quite some time and it doesn't make sense to keep also paying US taxes.

Full Throttle posted...
Alistar Bambridge

Who? You don't include any kind of a citation for this guy. Is he a government employee? Is he a professor? Is he a guy you met at Home Depot?

Full Throttle posted... Would you ever give up citizenship from your country to move to another?

These are two unrelated clauses. Most people who give up citizenship ALREADY moved to another country and have been living there for quite some time. Almost nobody just surrenders their citizenship and moves elsewhere.

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Noop_Noop
10/30/20 10:21:18 PM
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so now they get to continue to follow american politics and emulate american culture, but they dont get to vote. cool.

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papercup
10/30/20 10:36:46 PM
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I would love to live in New Zealand, but fucking Trump virus so I can't

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Jen0125
10/30/20 10:38:16 PM
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I'm planning to leave but not necessarily renounce my citizenship because then I can still vote

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InfestedAdam
10/30/20 10:45:43 PM
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I would not move due to political/social reasons but the thought have crossed my mind of retiring elsewhere depending on the difficulty of obtaining citizenship in my 70s+

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TheWorstPoster
10/30/20 10:46:47 PM
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papercup posted...
I would love to live in New Zealand, but fucking Trump virus so I can't

Sure. Blame Trump on something that China did, and something that Democrats kept blocking Trump on doing, all while criticizing him on not doing what they prevented him from doing, all while they went out and urged people to go into Chinatown to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
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Zareth
10/30/20 11:28:41 PM
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Ah yes, as we all know the big bad Democrats forced Trump to tell his supporters that the Coronavirus was no more dangerous than the flu, when what he REALLY wanted to do was make sure we were all prepared for it.

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papercup
10/31/20 12:01:10 AM
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TheWorstPoster posted...
Sure. Blame Trump on something that China did, and something that Democrats kept blocking Trump on doing, all while criticizing him on not doing what they prevented him from doing, all while they went out and urged people to go into Chinatown to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

What? Literally all Trump had to do was actually act, and it wouldn't have hurt if from the beginning he wore a mask and said "wearing a mask is patriotic". Hell he probably could have made a fortune selling MAGA masks doing that. No, instead he's said over and over that masks don't help, and that lockdowns are tyranny, and this has inspired far-right crazies to plan terrorist attacks on governors. You have no fucking clue what you're talking about, do you?

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wwinterj25
10/31/20 1:59:11 AM
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As much as some countries look nice to visit I wouldn't want to live in them as chances are I'd get bored. I'll keep in my country thanks.

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ClarkDuke
10/31/20 3:06:35 AM
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TheWorstPoster posted...
Sure. Blame Trump on something that China did, and something that Democrats kept blocking Trump on doing, all while criticizing him on not doing what they prevented him from doing, all while they went out and urged people to go into Chinatown to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
i wish you put as much effort into getting a job, as you do with spreading qanon theories, ok?

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OmegaM
10/31/20 7:39:47 AM
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papercup posted...
I would love to live in New Zealand, but fucking Trump virus so I can't
I too have thought about moving to New Zealand, but rather because they seem to have covid under control. But I'm sure they wouldn't want me. If I did move there, I'd go to Auckland, since it's the biggest city but not too big by world standards.
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