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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What bothers me is Americans abroad having to pay US taxes even though they haven't lived or worked in the US - some for decades[/quote]

Has this rule changed?  I thought that if you stayed out of the country you did not have to pay?  I have a cousin who did this back in the late '70's.  He couldn't come home to visit or he had to pay taxes.

Personally, I think that if you are an American citizen, you should not be allowed to have another passport.  I think you should have to claim loyalty by the age of 25 if you have the 'right" to two citizenships.  That anchor for the Spanish television network voted in Mexico and the US.  There is something wrong with that, I think.  I suspect that the Americans in Iranian prisons have Iranian passports, too.

Is that really too much to ask?  That you be a citizen of only one country?[/quote]

If you are paying taxes to two nations, you absolutely deserve the right to vote in two countries. We paid US and Chinese taxes for nearly a decade and you'd better believe I would have also voted in China had they given me - or anyone living there - the opportunity.[/quote]
No you don't deserve the right if you haven't lived in that country for decades.  Dual citizens in the UK who have not lived in the UK for more than x years cannot vote in UK elections.  Why should they?  They don't live there anymore so why should they have they right to have a say in how the country is run?  [/quote]

That's because the UK doesn't make their citizens abroad pay taxes. Only the US does. If you pay US taxes to a country - whether you live there or not - you deserve to vote. Hello, taxation without representation in DC!?! Maybe Trump will change that for DC and Americans abroad if it's so unjust. [/quote]

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