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1. wincy+n7[view] [source] 2021-07-02 17:49:45
>>WaitWa+(OP)
My wife got flagged as an extremist and started getting notices from Facebook yesterday every time she logged in.

Which I mean, my wife believes that the government using the threat of violence to collect taxes is immoral, unethical, and that all transactions between all individuals should be voluntary and nonviolent. Which in terms of popular discourse, is very "extreme". She was thinking about running for local public office an a platform of "the government will not take away your propery for failure to pay taxes" which a surprising number of local people on Facebook supported. She's been going to Meetups and having people say "oh yeah I saw your meme, the government sucks, keep it up!" She bugs local politicans on Facebook, their ads keep popping up in her feed, so she'll ask them things like "do you think it's moral to seize someone's property when they can't pay their taxes?" which of course gets bullshit nonanswers from politicians. Nobody wants to say "I think it's moral to seize someone's house because they're behind on taxes".

An authoritarian government wouldn't like someone like my wife, and they certainly wouldn't want her getting likes on Facebook. After all, what if she DOES run for office? What if she wins? What if other people like her win?

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2. carabi+Vu[view] [source] 2021-07-02 19:53:24
>>wincy+n7
Is she a garden variety sovereign citizen, or something else?
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3. Wincys+Dw[view] [source] 2021-07-02 20:00:51
>>carabi+Vu
The sovereign citizens trip up because they image there is some legal loophole to allow them to opt-out. There is not. But there should be.
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4. vkou+6x[view] [source] 2021-07-02 20:02:49
>>Wincys+Dw
That legal loophole exists. They can leave the country and renounce their citizenship.
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5. ceilin+ox[view] [source] 2021-07-02 20:03:54
>>vkou+6x
Exit taxes are pretty rough. You also cannot renounce citizenship if your explicit reason is to avoid taxes.

Hotel California indeed.

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6. vkou+Nx[view] [source] 2021-07-02 20:05:44
>>ceilin+ox
If you have no intention of coming back, there is next to no recourse against you.
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7. ralph8+XA[view] [source] 2021-07-02 20:20:30
>>vkou+Nx
Good luck getting a bank account anywhere except in the most remote places of the world if you left the US with unpaid taxes. Everywhere else the banks will comply with FATCA and want nothing to do with you [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

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