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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Why should your citizenship have anything to do with it?
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Why shouldn't it? If you don't want to pay taxes to the US, you don't get to be a citizen of the US.
Are you a closet federalist libertarian small-gov't freak? Wow. I think I have to go lie down.
ETA, there are tax treaties with the vast majority of countries in which US people might work, so people don't end up double-taxed very often. I believe that for most Western European countries, a US citizen who worked overseas for a non-US employer wouldn't end up paying US taxes at all b/c European rates are higher. Or, they end up paying the same (higher) amount as they would have in the European country, but part goes to the US. I'm not really a tax person.
