Record Number of Americans Renouncing Citizenship

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
August 12, 2016

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American passports are quickly becoming a liability.

Soon enough, all the benefits of having one will be gone, as the US will be a full-on third world hellhole.

Being a US citizen will be no different than being a Venezuelan citizen, except that you’ll have way higher taxes.

Fortune:

Wave bye-bye to Aaron Adkins and William Acheson. Say so long to Elena Zona and Sheila Zyngier. Those names are the start and end of a long list of former Americans who turned in their passports during the second quarter of the year.

All told, those four people and 500 other Americans renounced their citizenship last quarter, compared to 461 during the same period in 2015. The increase, which comes after 1,158 Americans turned in their passports during the first quarter, means the U.S. is on track to set another record for what the U.S. Treasury Department calls “Individuals who have chosen to expatriate.”

To put this in context, fewer than 300 people chose to cease being Americans in all of 2006, meaning renunciation rates have arisen about 15-fold in a decade.

So why are so many folks saying so long to Uncle Sam? The Treasury Department, which is obliged to publish quarterly lists, doesn’t offer any explanations.

But the best guess is probably not Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (yet), but the U.S. tax system.

Trump would fix the tax system, of course. He would also make it worthwhile to be an American citizen.