Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars?
Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 1 month agoWhy is it Americans still need to get taxed and drafted even outside their home nation. Nobody else does that
Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars?
Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 1 month agoWhy is it Americans still need to get taxed and drafted even outside their home nation. Nobody else does that
yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
For taxes: initially it was because business owners were renouncing their citizenship as a way to avoid income and capital gains taxes, as well as estate taxes.
For the draft: during the Vietnam War people would flee to other countries (usually Canada) and renounce their US citizenship, even if they didn’t obtain citizenship elsewhere. Becoming a stateless person was (correctly) seen as less of a death sentence than being sent to Vietnam.