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emdash posted:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/undercover-border-militia-immigration-bauer Wow, this is the same journalist that went undercover working as a prison guard in the for-profit prison industry. He really picks the fun assignments, eh? Mad respect for this dude.
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foobardog posted:Seriously. Imagine the timeline where it's Jeb! vs. Hillary. Turnout at all time low.
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Kevyn posted:Yes but Trump has the endorsements of Chip Chipperson and Paul Hargis. I mean those characters unintentionally represent different sides of Trump's personality so that makes sense.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Probably I am showing my ignorance but my worry is that a single nuclear disaster would carry really bad consequences. If we multiply the number of reactors and get even a single corrupt company or toothless regulation it increases the chances of a fukushima. Even Chernobyl only killed a few thousand people all in over the past 30 years, and frankly all the abandoned land around it is a thriving nature reserve now. Fukushima killed 2 people and both of them were killed as the result of plain old explosions, as you can get at any sort of power facility - and as a reminder that took a major earthquake and a huge tsunami hitting in close succession to even happen - while Chernobyl took a horrible reactor design plus operator error plus the Soviet government trying to cover things up when immediate evacuations would have saved a lot of people. And it's not like we just plop them down right next to city hall anyway. Like the lagoons we store pig poo poo in from farms currently is more deadly in a wider area to the environment than all nuclear problems in every country since the first nuclear bombs were invented, let alone commercial nuclear power incident. To say nothing of the results of just living next to coal power plants for a while. Kilroy posted:I guess everyone in this thread is living in some alt-Earth where only the fabulously wealth would ever bother to move to another country. Only very wealthy people not only work outside of the country but also renounce their US citizenship because having it causes such high taxes that they can afford to do it. Kilroy posted:Again - once you renounce your total assets are counted as income for that year. And you have to be rather wealthy in order to have so many assets in a country you don't live in, for that to be a serious problem. Fuckin' duh. You can hardly afford to maintain any extensive property back in the US if you work a normal job overseas in France or Romania or whatever. Kilroy posted:giving up your US citizenship is not "extreme and ridiculous" you unbelievable rear end in a top hat Lol yeah it is. There are currently over 310 million American citizens, around 8 million of whom are expatriates of some sort, and there haven't been any years where more than 6000 people gave up that citizenship. Most years have been under 4000. If that was a full 6000 people every year for the past 30 years (which it isn't) that'd be only 180,000 people. That's extreme and ridiculous. Frankly, a lot of people who don't want to pay US taxes anymore just move their assets out of US domestic banks and move somewhere the local authorities won't care if you don't pay American taxes.
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Trabisnikof posted:No I mean, if you had citizenship somewhere and wanted to run for office or avoid as much lingering social stigma of being a foreigner as possible. Ted Cruz pronouncing his Canadian citizenship being a prime example, he doesn't hate Canada he just needs to be "more American" for the job he wants . Or the other way around for that matter. Doesn't need to be public office either. I was born with dual American-Canadian citizenship, and need(ed) to be more American for various careers/positions/clearances/etc. In some areas it's a requirement to give up your foreign citizenship - though enforcement is spotty, you at minimum need to express willingness to renounce and surrender a foreign passport.
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blue squares posted:It's hard for me to imagine that Trump is bringing in a significant amount of money to the GOP at this point, anyway Don't forget that it's nearly impossible to cancel recurring donations on his site without also canceling your credit card!
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I'm so sorry to keep the expat derail going but there's a bunch of expats actually reading this and I wanted to clarify for them that the Foreign Earned Income exclusion DOES NOT apply to income earned through your own business (ie: money you make yourself not through an employer). That is subject to the Self-Employment Tax (15% of your net gains) and if you're a US citizen you need to be filing every year and paying that tax, even if you make less than $90.000 anually.
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blue squares posted:It's hard for me to imagine that Trump is bringing in a significant amount of money to the GOP at this point, anyway I think the news is more significant in that it indicates his spite for his own party.
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/791023924792455169 With 2 weeks to go, I'd have to imagine it was just not necessary anymore. At this point you should have finalized your spending, and how quickly can you deploy money coming in at such a late stage?
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Really, if anything, we should be collecting taxes on non-citizens living outside of the united states. Hegemons are expensive, people.
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fishmech posted:And you have to be rather wealthy in order to have so many assets in a country you don't live in, for that to be a serious problem. Fuckin' duh. You can hardly afford to maintain any extensive property back in the US if you work a normal job overseas in France or Romania or whatever. Ur Getting Fatter posted:I'm so sorry to keep the expat derail going but there's a bunch of expats actually reading this and I wanted to clarify for them that the Foreign Earned Income exclusion DOES NOT apply to income earned through your own business (ie: money you make yourself not through an employer). That is subject to the Self-Employment Tax (15% of your net gains) and if you're a US citizen you need to be filing every year and paying that tax, even if you make less than $90.000 anually.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:I'm so sorry to keep the expat derail going but there's a bunch of expats actually reading this and I wanted to clarify for them that the Foreign Earned Income exclusion DOES NOT apply to income earned through your own business (ie: money you make yourself not through an employer). That is subject to the Self-Employment Tax (15% of your net gains) and if you're a US citizen you need to be filing every year and paying that tax, even if you make less than $90.000 anually.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:I'm so sorry to keep the expat derail going but there's a bunch of expats actually reading this and I wanted to clarify for them that the Foreign Earned Income exclusion DOES NOT apply to income earned through your own business (ie: money you make yourself not through an employer). That is subject to the Self-Employment Tax (15% of your net gains) and if you're a US citizen you need to be filing every year and paying that tax, even if you make less than $90.000 anually. Those poor small business owners.
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Volcott posted:Really, if anything, we should be collecting taxes on non-citizens living outside of the united states. Hegemons are expensive, people. Which is why we should charge protection money to NATO members! Vote Trump!
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Crow Jane posted:Jay Z's doing a GOTV thing in Cleveland November 4th . Don't think I need to mention which candidate it's for darrell castle?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:What happens if a US expat just doesn't pay USA taxes? Can the IRS send someone start an extradition process? They do send someone. Agent 47. 
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:What happens if a US expat just doesn't pay USA taxes? Can the IRS send someone start an extradition process?
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computer parts posted:Those poor small business owners. 
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computer parts posted:Those poor small business owners. I don't know if you're joking but I run my own business where I live abroad, I make about 30k a year and have to pay an additional 15% in US taxes on top of local taxes. That's 15% off my sole income of 30k. Granted living costs are lower where I live, but still.
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gohmak posted:Signs point to yes. Come the gently caress on, if there was an actual, verifiable case of him raping a minor, don't you think the Hillary campaign would be all over that?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:What happens if a US expat just doesn't pay USA taxes? Can the IRS send someone start an extradition process?
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emdash posted:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/undercover-border-militia-immigration-bauer  Jesus, these guys are nuts.
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Kilroy posted:Ah yes, there's that good-faith posting I've haven't been doing enough of $2 million in retirement assets worth of it?
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Feldegast42 posted:What is with all the people crawling out of the cracks saying that Hitlery will be starting WW3 ANY DAY NOW pretty sure that was first said by one of Putin's cronies and I guess the GOP picked it up and ran with it?
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Liquid Communism posted:$2 million in retirement assets worth of it? And 30 days to visit a sick relative.
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/791023924792455169 My kingdom for a :ryanpop:
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Hey look guys "The left assumes all women are liberals." - Trump kegger (Talahassee FL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdLQFPTXBPg
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Oh yeah and those amazing evacuation services the US Embassy allegedly offers are crap compared to what other developed countries have and you usually get billed afterwards. I think in Beirut back in '06 the Americans got evacuated a week after everyone else.
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Chinese Gordon posted:My kingdom for a :ryanpop: Why would we need a smilie for some rando who won't even be a Congressman come January? 
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/791023924792455169 please stop my boner cant take it anymore
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Complaint Compilation posted:Hey look guys "The left assumes all women are liberals." - Trump kegger (Talahassee FL) Pretty small/low energy crowd there
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/791031177570295808 But it's the democrats who are rigging the election for realsies
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computer parts posted:And 30 days to visit a sick relative. It's a testament to how lovely workers get treated in the US that it is considered a pipe dream that someone would be able to take four weeks off of work without being bankrupted.
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foobardog posted:Seriously. Imagine the timeline where it's Jeb! vs. Hillary. Obviously Jeb! would have run a more professional campaign, but judging by his performance in the primaries, I find it unlikely he would have generated a lot of enthusiasm. The media would have eaten up Bush vs Clinton II: Please Clapaloo, but let's not forget that the Bush name is also pretty tarnished and may have fired up the Dem base old enough to remember what an utter disaster the previous Bush presidency was. Really, if you look at the field of Republican contenders in the primaries, I'm sure some of them would have come within striking distance of Clinton due to the sheer hatred many Republicans feel towards Clinton, but look at the hopefuls: amateuristic doofuses who would have fallen sooner or later (e.g. Carson), religious extremists unpalatable to the public at large (e.g. Santorum, Cruz, Huckabee), cardboard cutouts too similar to Romney (e.g. Rubio, Perry), McCain retreads (e.g. Graham, Kasich) or oddballs with 0 personal charm (e.g. Paul the Younger, Fiorina). In addition, if their strategy against Trump is anything to go by, the Clinton camp is capable of running an extremely professional campaign tailor-made to the weaknesses of their opponents. They have absorbed the lessons learnt of the failures of Gore and Kerry as well as their failure to defeat Obama in the Dem primaries of 2004. What Clinton may lack in personal charm compared to Obama, she makes up for in sheer ruthlessness and preparedness. I don't think any of the Republican hopefuls could have matched that. As a last point, consider this: Hillary has surrogates campaigning for her such as Bill, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Biden and the Obamas. What do the Republicans have on offer? No one who can match these people's charisma or rhetoric. I mean, can you imagine Dick Cheney going on the stump for Jeb Bush? Or Romney or McCain hitting the campaign trail for Ted Cruz?
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