And why I warn my students to not even date one nor go into business with one. However, with the US forcing the world to follow its FATCA law, other countries are getting into the act.
Stuff like this is why I gave up my US citizenship many years ago. The requirements for US citizens living abroad, for filing all sorts of financial forms yearly, got more and more complicated and onerous as years went by, with threat of huge penalties if one didn't fill out all the increasingly confusing forms correctly and timely. By the time I got out of the tightening vise, the US was certainly no longer "the land of the free". I was glad to have escaped the mess.
I have had numerous opportunities to settle in the US. I have declined them. I have worked there twice, in Silicone Valley in the 90s and San Diego in the mid 2010s (I may be the only person in the world to have had 2 different H1B visas and left after both), and found the US in general and California in particular to be far more inefficiently authoritarian than might have been expected.
Worse the US (not just California, all of it) became steadily far more government controlled and intrusive in the 15 years between my two visits and that trend seems to be continuing. Though recent supreme court decisions may roll that back a bit, the trend is clear
California is a perfect case study of what the left is capable of when allowed in power. I was stationed there from 89 to 91. In that time, SanDiego went from the 5th most livable city in the States to falling out of the top 20. I do not where it was exactly when I transferred across country, but it was in free fall in this ranking system. While many saw the decline, it happens slowly and the amount is hard to gage when you live with them daily. I can only image the shock you had returning after 15 years. Glad you were able to read the writing on the wall and steer clear of the trap they set for you. Given the nature of these laws and the US fondness for applying new laws retroactively, I recommend against anyone going there for any long periods of time for work. A short business trip has its own perils, but stays of a year or more, or several such are dangerous.
The recent Supreme Court rulings are indeed a positive sign, but they are not what we believe such rulings to be. In researching FATCA/FBAR and related issues, I found some disturbing facts. These lead me to doubt that the over 200 incarcerated persons over J6th that were imprisoned over the misapplication of the law as decided by the Supreme Court will be immediately released. That is not how it happens. They have to in some form or another petition the court for at a minimum a hearing, and possibly a new trial so that the ruling can then be applied. That costs more money and takes time. Even if the courts are motivated to relapse them, it is likely to take quite some time and I doubt very much that the courts that convicted them are in any way motivated to help these illegally detained persons. I hope, and pray that I am wrong.
On the Chevron deference ruling, I doubt it’ll will overturn anything. Nor will this decision keep it from being used. All a Supreme Court Decision does in such cases is give defendants another line of defense. You can still be charged and penalized under it, but you can argue that the recent decision protects you from it. The courts and jury need not agree that it does in your specific case. If they say “no”, you now have the right to appeal on the grounds of the Supreme Court decision, which may or may not be granted, and if it is, the appeals court may decide for or against you.
Supreme Court decisions of this nature do not necessarily end any practice on the part of the government, they just give you another argument to use in the courtroom. I was floored when I realized this.
The fat parasites in the US government are stealing so much money for themselves, they need to exsanguinate the existing taxable citizens, until they die.
Stuff like this is why I am very glad not to be a US citizen.
And why I warn my students to not even date one nor go into business with one. However, with the US forcing the world to follow its FATCA law, other countries are getting into the act.
Stuff like this is why I gave up my US citizenship many years ago. The requirements for US citizens living abroad, for filing all sorts of financial forms yearly, got more and more complicated and onerous as years went by, with threat of huge penalties if one didn't fill out all the increasingly confusing forms correctly and timely. By the time I got out of the tightening vise, the US was certainly no longer "the land of the free". I was glad to have escaped the mess.
I am happy for all who successfully escaped. Those that haven’t, we are truly trapped.
I have had numerous opportunities to settle in the US. I have declined them. I have worked there twice, in Silicone Valley in the 90s and San Diego in the mid 2010s (I may be the only person in the world to have had 2 different H1B visas and left after both), and found the US in general and California in particular to be far more inefficiently authoritarian than might have been expected.
Worse the US (not just California, all of it) became steadily far more government controlled and intrusive in the 15 years between my two visits and that trend seems to be continuing. Though recent supreme court decisions may roll that back a bit, the trend is clear
California is a perfect case study of what the left is capable of when allowed in power. I was stationed there from 89 to 91. In that time, SanDiego went from the 5th most livable city in the States to falling out of the top 20. I do not where it was exactly when I transferred across country, but it was in free fall in this ranking system. While many saw the decline, it happens slowly and the amount is hard to gage when you live with them daily. I can only image the shock you had returning after 15 years. Glad you were able to read the writing on the wall and steer clear of the trap they set for you. Given the nature of these laws and the US fondness for applying new laws retroactively, I recommend against anyone going there for any long periods of time for work. A short business trip has its own perils, but stays of a year or more, or several such are dangerous.
The recent Supreme Court rulings are indeed a positive sign, but they are not what we believe such rulings to be. In researching FATCA/FBAR and related issues, I found some disturbing facts. These lead me to doubt that the over 200 incarcerated persons over J6th that were imprisoned over the misapplication of the law as decided by the Supreme Court will be immediately released. That is not how it happens. They have to in some form or another petition the court for at a minimum a hearing, and possibly a new trial so that the ruling can then be applied. That costs more money and takes time. Even if the courts are motivated to relapse them, it is likely to take quite some time and I doubt very much that the courts that convicted them are in any way motivated to help these illegally detained persons. I hope, and pray that I am wrong.
On the Chevron deference ruling, I doubt it’ll will overturn anything. Nor will this decision keep it from being used. All a Supreme Court Decision does in such cases is give defendants another line of defense. You can still be charged and penalized under it, but you can argue that the recent decision protects you from it. The courts and jury need not agree that it does in your specific case. If they say “no”, you now have the right to appeal on the grounds of the Supreme Court decision, which may or may not be granted, and if it is, the appeals court may decide for or against you.
Supreme Court decisions of this nature do not necessarily end any practice on the part of the government, they just give you another argument to use in the courtroom. I was floored when I realized this.
The fat parasites in the US government are stealing so much money for themselves, they need to exsanguinate the existing taxable citizens, until they die.
And create new taxable persons, not just citizens and not just residents.
This is ridiculous, never received income but owe taxes on it.
Yes, that is the kind of sense we get these days.
Yep. And, despite what the articles I read on this say, retroactive taxation has been around at least as far back as the Clinton administration.
There have been attempts to tax mileage points too.