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How do I benefit from a country while not being in it?
Well, in the US, one benefit is being able to freely travel to many other countries without needing to go through a months long visa application process.
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Isnt the us taxing basically everyone even if they moved somewhere else years ago?
It's even more absurd. They force Green Card holders to pay taxes too. I lived and worked in country A, have citizenship with country B and the most amount of money when I worked in A was sent to the US, where I have no rights, no one would come for me to 'save me' when I'm held hostage or whatnot. Nothing. But I paid more taxes to the US than to country A (and nothing to my home country). I relinquished my Green Car…
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In theory if you get kidnapped by terrorists or something then the US government might try to rescue you.
If i moved away from the us because i misstrust them or whatever reason why would i care about their rescue? I never thought about my born Country is going to help with anything as i moved away and pay taxes somewhere else. I rather be rescued to “home“
This is fearmongering. The bill was introduced a year ago, went nowhere, and is now dead. This WSJ article was published a month after the bill was officially killed… The broader legislature has no interest in such a tax. This is the bill in question: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xht... Edit: also note that this article is on the WSJ opinion page, and didn’t come from the news desk.
My wife and I plan to travel extensively in retirement. We have traveled a lot so far in life, but only one week here, two weeks there, limited by vacation time. When we travel in retirement, we plan to stay two to four weeks in each place we visit, away from home for months at a time. Except that if you are in your home state for less than six months plus one day, residency becomes and issue (in almost every state) and can have tax implications. Most people never have to face that situation, but I have one close acquaintance that has dealt with this issue for the last five years as a resident of Florida. He says that if the state suspects that you are skirting the edge of your residency requirements, they can request your non-specific state-based cell phone data for the calendar year, and it will be provided to the state. It won't be fine grained location data, but it will say how many days you were in that state.
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Do you actually mean Californio? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californios
Ok. Are you a Californio old enough to remember Silicon Valley when it was mostly farmland? You’d have to be around 70-80 years old right? If we’re talking about the conquistadors, can’t we lump them in with “Just very greedy overly ambitious and pretentious people”? They weren’t kind to the indigenous people. Even slavery wasn’t out of the question.
This is the type of ignorance I'm talking about.
The first people to colonize California were mestizo and mulato - generations after the conquistadores in Mexico.
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Ok. Are you a Californio old enough to remember Silicon Valley when it was mostly farmland? You’d have to be around 70-80 years old right? If we’re talking about the conquistadors, can’t we lump them in with “Just very greedy overly ambitious and pretentious people”? They weren’t kind to the indigenous people. Even slavery wasn’t out of the question.
> conquistadors This is the type of ignorance I'm talking about. The first people to colonize California were mestizo and mulato - generations after the conquistadores in Mexico.
“Prior to contact with Europeans, the California region contained the highest Native American population density north of what is now Mexico.“
Native Americans settled in California 19,000 years ago or earlier, at least 18,500 years before the arrival of the conquistadors.
Given your own ignorance of history, I really doubt you’re even old enough to remember Silicon Valley when it was just a bunch of orchards.
If you really want to live in a place similar to California before Silicon Valley, there are plenty of states within the US that can offer that experience right now. You don’t need patience, you just need courage to experience it; that is of course if you were pining for less development and population density. Reading what you’ve previously written again, if what you really wanted was ethnic purity (which I misread as wanting to live in less developed areas) then I have other words for you. That type of post is not welcome on HN
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This point needs to be hammered home every time the rich (or their "hope to be rich" enablers) talk about what percentage of total revenue they pay. It's almost as if they think a poll tax would be fairest. They pay a higher dollar amount because they have more of what is being taxed, which in turn is largely because of a system that actively drives "rich get richer" disparities. You have to look at the rates not the…
> or their "hope to be rich" enablers I'm no "hope to be rich" enabler. I'm a realist who understands that if California drives away all the wealthy people, the economy and business climate will be worse, not better. You can have your utopia where every man earns the same meager living working in the commune, I choose to live in the real world.
Thanks for the laugh.