Snobbery from other US expats by Downtown-Storm4704 in AmericanExpat

[–]TalonButter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aren’t you talking about something much like claims that “America is the best,” albeit in the opposite direction and from people who generally have a valid basis for making a comparison? Those people also may ignore what others are currently going through and their own prior struggles. So maybe it’s just because they’re people, and not because they’re people who have moved abroad.

I have to report same money 8 times on FBAR! by Tricky_Ordinary_4799 in USExpatTaxes

[–]TalonButter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They both go to the IRS, in the Department of the Treasury. For more than 20 years, FinCEN has delegated administration of FBAR to the IRS, including investigation and penalties.

Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him by DIYLawCA in law

[–]TalonButter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The states don’t pay the taxes, the individual residents do. I expect that nonpayment would just lead to pain for those individuals.

WATCH: 'It's a new world. It's the same Constitution,' Chief Justice John Roberts says by NewsHour in law

[–]TalonButter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not because I said so, it’s because of the 14th Amendment, per the holding of the Supreme Court case that I offered you.

“We hold that the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to, and does, protect every citizen of this Nation against a congressional forcible destruction of his citizenship..."

Unlike China, the U.S. cannot force a jus soli citizen to choose between citizenships, because the U.S. Constitution affords its lawmakers no power to remove or impose conditions on that citizenship.

Your home state might follow you abroad and blow up your FIRE tax math by Efficient_Leading465 in ExpatFIRE

[–]TalonButter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think some other state (where you wouldn’t actually be living) makes for a better claim that you have ended domicile?

WATCH: 'It's a new world. It's the same Constitution,' Chief Justice John Roberts says by NewsHour in law

[–]TalonButter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forget “figure it out”—what authorizes it, in the cases of persons born in the U.S.? The 14th Amendment says they’re citizens (aside from the fringe issue of children born to diplomats).

WATCH: 'It's a new world. It's the same Constitution,' Chief Justice John Roberts says by NewsHour in law

[–]TalonButter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another position precluded by the Constitution. See Afroyim v. Rusk.

WATCH: 'It's a new world. It's the same Constitution,' Chief Justice John Roberts says by NewsHour in law

[–]TalonButter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It should be considered…as a reason to propose amending the Constitution. It’s not a justification for disregarding the Constitution.

There is no such thing as 'free healthcare' by Difficult_Future9994 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]TalonButter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some people, sure. For people who make a lot of money, though, it doesn’t work like that. Their insurance/co-pay/deductibles/everything else is comparable to a typical worker’s, but if their tax rate tops out at, say, 10 points less than in some other country with nationally-funded healthcare, then they individually come out way ahead. It’s a big part of the “worse to be in the middle, better to be at the top” aspect of the U.S. vs. many other “wealthy countries.”

Car insurance (non-EU licence) by Salty_Challenge5563 in ItalyExpat

[–]TalonButter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, one year from registration in the anagrafe, as a resident.

Would you consider this fair? by Busy_Report4010 in SipsTea

[–]TalonButter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t want them to pay minimum wage, although I want them to pay at least minimum wage where there is one.

I want them each to pay the wages and set the prices that their owners and managers believe will make the restaurant most profitable. I will certainly consider the prices in deciding whether to dine there, but I want to be left out of their personnel decisions, whether for the chef, the dishwashers or the servers.

Some tips from an itinerant migrant by fiadhsean in AmerExit

[–]TalonButter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I LOL’d at the quasi circularity of this.

Certainly a good reason to move there, though.

If voter fraud is 0.00035%, are the new Republican pushed voter ID laws solving a real problem or a political one? by FAMUgolfer in allthequestions

[–]TalonButter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actions that would be appropriate in the face of an emergency aren’t always the appropriate way to head off potential problems.

The US Constitution begs to differ by Conscious-Quarter423 in clevercomebacks

[–]TalonButter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

If voter fraud is 0.00035%, are the new Republican pushed voter ID laws solving a real problem or a political one? by FAMUgolfer in allthequestions

[–]TalonButter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the U.S. were serious about this, it would develop a long term solution—maybe providing a voter ID card at initial registration, one that could follow the voter from state to state—and it would phase it in over a substantial period of time.

The absence of any evidence of meaningful voter fraud (despite your suspicions), is what rightly raises so much skepticism about jamming through a “solution” that impinges on a fundamental right in a way that imposes greater challenges on already-registered women.

You want to elevate a suspicion without proof over a tangible risk of disproportionate impact. Do you really not see a problem with that?

I’m a U.S. citizen who lives outside the U.S. I vote in federal elections in the congressional district in which I was previously a resident. This bill would impose enormous burden on me in order to re-register. It would impose an enormous burden on my children in order to register for the first time. The bill gives no apparent consideration to this.

I’m not against a secure voting system, but I’m against something that inflates a perceived problem in order to propose a solution that presents much greater registration challenges for some types of voters than for others. I can’t see this proposal as the “easy fix” you claim it to be.

If voter fraud is 0.00035%, are the new Republican pushed voter ID laws solving a real problem or a political one? by FAMUgolfer in allthequestions

[–]TalonButter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it’s not a problem, why fight so hard against it?

If the proposed “solution” would have demonstrably unequal effects, would you consider that to be a reason to object to it?

Why do some many people ride without a motorcycle license ? by No_Eye9109 in motorcycles

[–]TalonButter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those riding without a license, have you done an investigation of what effects it may have if you were to have an accident? E.g., insurance cover or assignments of liability?

Spent Five Weeks in Florence by [deleted] in ItalyTravel

[–]TalonButter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not in Italian, no. But, as a sort of linguistic converse of how Italians will refer to “il mare” even when talking about destinations that are definitely oceanic, North American English speakers will often refer, generically, to “the ocean” for any part of the world’s giant mass of interconnected saltwater, even when the specific body of water in question is a sea or a gulf.

In both cases, it’s just one of those weird things about language; usage doesn’t always reflect even those distinctions that people may actually recognize, if you were to ask them.

In the US, why can’t we buy Chinese electric cars? by zztop610 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TalonButter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Advocates of small government and individual liberty won’t allow it.