Going Galt: More Americans Vote with their Feet against Obama ...

I?ve written many times about how investors, entrepreneurs, small business owners and other successful people migrate from high-tax states to low-tax states.

Well, the same thing happens internationally, as France?s greedy politicians are now learning.

It?s a lot harder for Americans to escape our tax system, though, in part because of reprehensible exit taxes that are disturbingly reminiscent of some of the awful policies of past totalitarian regimes.

But it still happens, and that?s a very damning indictment of Obamanomics and a worrying referendum on the future of the United States. Here are some blurbs from a recent Fortune article.

Americans are ditching their U.S. passports in record numbers, a sign of growing frustration with a system that taxes U.S. citizens on their global wealth whether they live in Montana or Mongolia. ?on the list, published quarterly by the Internal Revenue Service, is Isabel Getty, the daughter of jet-setting socialite Pia Getty and Getty oil heir Christopher Getty. In total, more than 670 U.S. passport holders gave up their citizenship ? and with it, their U.S. tax bills ? in the first three months of this year. That is the most in any quarter since the I.R.S. began publishing figures in 1998. And it is nearly three-quarters of the total number for all of 2012, a year in which the wealthy songwriter-socialite Denise Rich (christened ?Lady Gatsby? by?Yachting magazine) and Facebook co-founder?Eduardo Saverin?joined more than 932 other Americans in tossing their passports. ?Expatriations first picked up pace in 2010, when more than 1,530 Americans dumped their passports.

The problem is particularly serious for Americans who live and work overseas. The United States is one of the few nations (and the only developed nation) to have ?worldwide? taxation, which means overseas Americans have to pay tax to the IRS as well as to the nation where they live.

Source: http://townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2013/05/12/going-galt-more-americans-vote-with-their-feet-against-obama-n1593195

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