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[–] HoneyNutStallmans [S] ago  (edited ago)

To be fair, if you want to continue receiving the benefits that come with being an American Eritrean citizen, you should pay US Eritrea taxes.

Imagine an Eritrean person who escaped Eritrea and won't pay his Eritrean taxes. Replace "America" or "US" with the appropriate words for any other country and it's easy to see how silly it is that a person owes a country something just for being born there but living outside.

There are 190+ countries that don't practice taxation of all their citizens across the world, and there are 2 that actually do. One of those two is a military dictatorship that threatens family members and friends when a person who left the country does not pay his or her taxes. Think about what those statistics demonstrate about the US.

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[–] barrinmw ago 

Only one country has a freedom of speech, maybe we should get rid of that because all those other countries don't.

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[–] HoneyNutStallmans [S] ago 

That's not the point. Citizenship taxation is detrimental to citizens abroad.

The demonstration that only two countries practice it is a small part of showing how outlandish the practice is.