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Portuguese is not that different from spanish.
This argument also gets me icy cold stares of death. It also reminds me of how mind-blowing it is that a country whose land-area is 1/5 of California managed to conquer almost 1/2 of South America!
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I used to live internationally and the taxes weren’t that much more complex. It really shouldn’t cost thousands, it’s just two extra forms if I recall correctly. If you Are living in high tax regimes like Switzerland you don’t have double tax on the first $xx,xxx in income, it used to be close to 90k.
Switzerland is not a high tax regime (outside of some French speaking Kantons).
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My life experiences have made me incapable of empathizing with this view. My fellow citizens have never had my back, and I disagree with most everything they hold dear, as they disagree with most everything about me. I don't hate America or its people, I'm just not that into them. Patriotic people love to tell others "If you don't love America, leave it". Well, as my patriotic act to those great patriotic Americans .…
Sounds like it was for the best. Are you happy with your new country? Any sense of patriotism there (using my definition)?
But enjoy singing some bad national anthem and crying while waving a flag or maybe killing someone who disrespects your flag, or whatever it is the patriotic kids do today.
We really have no country or stable home right now. Once we get to Spain we will love being there, but we will still hold no sense of patriotism.
I'm not willing to fight, murder, or die for a nation. Some people are wired that way, violent ideation of being a hero, dying for god and country or whatever, but it ain't me.
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This argument also gets me icy cold stares of death. It also reminds me of how mind-blowing it is that a country whose land-area is 1/5 of California managed to conquer almost 1/2 of South America!
I mean, I’m a native Spanish speaker and probably after a year I would be able to pick portuguese.
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Hmm. So it is OK for me to say make all of my money in San Francisco then go buy property in much poorer Detroit? Now what if about 1/3 of that income came from my wife who is from a poorer country than Spain?
I guess if a bunch of wealthy people came to Detroit and bought properties and extracted rent from much poorer citizens with less upward mobility and nearly no chance to own a property of them own, that would be the same problem.
It's so irritating to be an American that has moved overseas. Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else, just because of where you were born. Thanks to IRS regulations, 90% of investment firms will just reject me outright rather than deal with the paperwork. Getting someone to help file my inordinately complex taxes costs thousands of dollars more than I act…
It's quite possible that the Democrats will, if they modify the tax system, undo that change. That might be why investment firms hesitate to have you as a client. Although, unless you are using tax-advantaged accounts, it shouldn't be that much extra paperwork for them.
As for rich people gaming the system - I can imagine Bezos et al. would not mind living in the Caymans for a year while he sold all his stock to pay no taxes. If you can determine when you pay taxes, that's a huge benefit.
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That's what he wants you to think. In reality he really is just a buffoon.
Nobody will ever know, not even him! Good read: Kim Philby as a Real Case of Indeterminacy of Radical Interpretation: http://polatulet.narod.ru/dvc/ddbs/dennett_breaking.html#ch_...
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Sounds like it was for the best. Are you happy with your new country? Any sense of patriotism there (using my definition)?
Nope. Nada. None. Zilch. But enjoy singing some bad national anthem and crying while waving a flag or maybe killing someone who disrespects your flag, or whatever it is the patriotic kids do today. We really have no country or stable home right now. Once we get to Spain we will love being there, but we will still hold no sense of patriotism. I'm not willing to fight, murder, or die for a nation. Some people are wired…
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I think you misunderstand me. I am not saying the rich are leaving because of culture war issues. I am saying that the incessant claims that America is just the worse erodes the social fabric for everyone, including the rich, and one manifestation of such erosion is that it becomes morally acceptable to cheat the system. After all it is a corrupt, racist, oppressive, hypocriptical imperialistic system, so why pay int…
The problem with your supposition here is that America's rich have been already acting like "corrupt, racist, oppressive, hypocriptical imperialists" for at least 120 years. United Fruit Company[0], the Business Plot[1], etc. For the rich, it has always been morally acceptable to cheat the system. The 20th century saw the establishment of pensions, then they were raided barely a generation afterwards. I think what yo…
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Nobody will ever know, not even him! Good read: Kim Philby as a Real Case of Indeterminacy of Radical Interpretation: http://polatulet.narod.ru/dvc/ddbs/dennett_breaking.html#ch_...
Wow, narod.ru still alive. One of the first websites I remember.