[–] DickHertz ago (edited ago)
Exactly. So why would you expect you expect this to change? Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. If you decide to bail out then that is exactly nothing. I might support someone coming back with a recapture tax for all of the years were they elected not to be citizens as if they were subject to the laws during each retroactive period but really I don't think the U.S. owes anyone other than it's citizens a damn thing including not being subject to any rule the citizens via the government see fit to impose on non-citizens including any prejudice towards people who willfully chose to throw away their U.S. citizenship.
Bitcoin Jesus can go fuck himself as far as I'm concerned. I don't think anyone in the U.S even gave a fuck about that he wasn't allowed back in. Without any popular support to be found, anyone considering following in his footsteps should take note of the potential consequences which might include never being allowed to set foot in this country again and not being able to do anything about it regardless of how much money they made/saved.
[–] HoneyNutStallmans [S] ago (edited ago)
They have not given up on America; America has given up on them.
No, it doesn't owe anything other than to its citizens. To arbitrarily deny a person to visit his homeland (or perhaps he had never been there before, and had to relinquish the virus that's called "US citizenship" due to tyrannical taxation policy, and just wants to visit) is awful.
Of course people can elect to do something, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. Besides that fact, the people of the United States do not have any say in how their government runs.
Ok, what's your point?
People seperate themselves from a tyrannical, overreaching, invasive taxation policy. What is wrong with that? The fact that they declared independence from your sacred country?
[–] DickHertz ago
Nothing because the country then declares its independence from them and they are kept on outside looking in after that. All good as far as I can see.