Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.politics.theory Subject: Re: freedom, democracy, etc:Reply to cliff Message-ID: <588@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:41:24 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.588 Posted: Mon Feb 11 15:41:24 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 06:42:22 EST References: <630@wucs.UUCP> <452@whuxl.UUCP> <612@unmvax.UUCP> <457@whuxl.UUCP> <4495@ucbvax.ARPA> <24a2e37f.264c@apollo.uucp> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.politics:7537 net.politics.theory:84 >You can cancel your membership at anytime. You are >free to emigrate. Former citizens living elsewhere are not taxed (I hope). > Terry Dineen Actually, moving to another country will generally cost you more than the taxes we were discussing in the first place. This is like saying you can easily prevent the government's cutting off your fingers by cutting off your arm ahead of time. It's nothing like membership in a groub that you can cancel by saying "Count me out." Another point to note is that foreign nationals working in the US are required to pay taxes here, and that American citizens abroad are still required to pay taxes here. --JoSH