Feature Request: Add a picture of the representative when you use + to drill down. It's nice to attach a face to a name.
Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government
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#102Feature Request: Add a picture of the representative when you use + to drill down. It's nice to attach a face to a name.
Already implemented for most high-level representatives ;)
Check Obama for an example.
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#103Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it yields detail clear down to local offices It has city councils, but it doesn't have any local districts. In Sunnyvale, you are also being represented on at least the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District[1], the El Camino Health Care District[2], and the Santa Clara Valley Water District[3]. If you are curious how I figured this out, I went to the Santa Clara County Local Agency Formation website, which has…
Why do so much work and post on HN instead of sending them a quick mail?
Our address is secure@politiwatch.org
Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government
#105Feature Request: Add a picture of the representative when you use + to drill down. It's nice to attach a face to a name.
Already implemented for most high-level representatives ;) Check Obama for an example.
Great! I was only looking at the local state reps when I tested with my address.
Crowd sourcing them from select users could be a fast method.
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#106I got my list and was pleased to see things like Auditor and Coroner, but why no state senator or state representative? There's also no judicial branch to be found, which may not matter much for the Federal Supreme Court, because they're appointed, but just about every jurisdiction I fall under, State Supreme, State Appeals, Local Criminal, Local family, has an elected judge. Judges tend to be a major source of ballo…
Coroner is an elected position where you live?
At any rate, I did get my state senator and mayor, but no city council rep.
Around here judges are not elected, but we do vote to remove or retain judges. Generally every year there will be one or two that someone is campaigning to have removed.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
The taxes you owe take this into account, don't they? You have benefits of being a US citizen regardless of where you live. Some may value this more than others. Weighing your options, you may want to consider changing your citizenship.
You're taxed like a resident by the US. A friend had their tax-free (in the UK) PhD stipend taxed by the US government. Other people can find themselves owing significant taxes on property sales in the UK, despite the transaction having absolutely nothing to do with the US government [1]. There are exemptions which are pretty low and clearly don't cover the above examples. Plus you still have to do the overly onerous…
You're taxed like a resident by the US.
Not really. You get to offset foreign taxes and exempt more income than most US residents earn.
The filing requirements are sort of onerous, the taxation isn't.
I can see where it is sort of punitive to pay taxes on a large capital gain that has nothing to do with the US, but when you are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars of such income you are talking about outliers.
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#108Impressive. It even had my Registry of Deeds. Although it did list some people from other districts. I'm from New Hampshire and it showed all our Executive Council even the ones not in my district.[1]
[1] In New Hampshire if the Governor is the Chairman of the Board the executive council is like the directors on the board.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you consider citizenship to be "no benefit" (you can still vote, collect Social Security, etc. overseas), you could always renounce your citizenship.
Social Security is not a "benefit". It is getting money back that I have paid in to the system. And as for voting, why? I have no representative to vote for.
Yes Social Security is a "benefit", you more than likely will get back everything you paid in plus interest plus continue drawing a Social Security check beyond that. Last time I crunched the numbers a retiree would on average get back everything they paid in plus interest in just under 9 years. And that is a generous estimate since I averaged payments into the system over a typical working life instead of weighing them towards later in life (people tend to make more as they gain experience and their career advances).
Social Security is not a savings plan no matter how much you would like to think it is.
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#110To everyone posting here: I am a creator of this service. If you'd like to get in contact with us, email secure@politiwatch.org! We're extremely encouraged by all the positive feedback here, and we're glad to provide a service that you all found helpful.
I think the service is awesome ... but why the "enter your email address" part? You can locate people just by zipcode (and omitting the email still works). What are you using our addresses for? What is your privacy policy?
Why ask for nonessential information in the first place?