• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    their obligation to continue to pay American taxes for what amounts to no benefit.

    I thought Americans didn’t like “taxation without representation”…

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      You still have the right to vote as a US citizen living abroad. The only taxation without representation is of people living in the US on a visa or green card.

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        And residents of DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, USVI, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Probably the rest of the territories too, but those ones have members of Congress that aren’t allowed to vote.