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Travel and Taxes: Could an exit tax be next?

Posted January 22, 2008

“Policymakers slipped this horrendous restriction into a popular military pension/pay bill, (without hearings or public notice, I might add), so insiders say President Bush may actually sign it into law.” — Bob Bauman.

Blogger’s note: Bob Bauman, legal counsel and senior writer over at Sovereign Society, sent out this message to his A-Letter subscribers. According to Bob, Congress is trying to steal more of your hard-won assets. And you’ll never guess where they’re planning to tax you this time.You can find the article here or read on for more.

by Bob Bauman

Baltimore – (TFN): As my colleague Mark Nestmann and I have been predicting for some time, it appears 2008 could be the year when the Democrat controlled United States Congress imposes an “exit tax.”

This official “exit tax” would apply to both U.S. citizens and long-time resident aliens who decide they want to leave America permanently.

Policymakers slipped this horrendous restriction into a popular military pension/pay bill, (without hearings or public notice, I might add), so insiders say President Bush may actually sign it into law.

This outrage is happening despite the protections in the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution guarantees the right to voluntarily end your U.S. citizenship. It also grants you the right to live and travel abroad freely and acquire and enjoy second citizenship from other nations.

Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed every one of these basic rights. (Even the U.N. Charter affirms these rights and in 2004 the European Court of Justice overruled a similar French exit tax because it violated the EU treaty on human rights.)

Indeed this confiscatory exit tax harkens back to Adolf Hitler’s notorious departure taxes that stripped Jews of their property before they were allowed to escape from Nazi Germany. It also brings to mind similar oppressive laws to those fleeing Stalin’s Communist Soviet Union and apartheid-era South Africa.

Travel and Taxes: Civil Liberties Be Damned

If the so-called Democrat Party “liberals,” who supposedly advocate civil rights and liberties, can impose such an oppressive exit tax, what will happen when Democrats take control of both the presidency and Congress? (And are the Republicans much better?)

Could United States citizens and legal residents suddenly find their right to travel, their freedom to live in other countries restricted, or even forbidden? Could such a government also impose currency exit controls and other extreme measures?

After the 2006 election I predicted that “Democrats will have the power to write radical new laws tempered only by the hapless President George Bush’s shaky veto pen.” The exit tax is a prime example. Read on to learn what other constraints Congress is proposing on your travel.

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