Reply #26: yeah, the ignorance I'm seeing in this thread is really astounding. [View All]

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A friend of mine took a massive tax hit in the US a few years ago after setting up his own country overseas (where he'd been living and working for a number of years already). It's just more of the ignorance that people around here have about the rest of the world; for no logical reason whatsoever should someone have to pay taxes to a country that played no role in them earning the money they are being taxed on. If this was framed in terms of state income taxes people in the US would be outraged, but the "USA! USA!" spirit, even on DU, means that common sense goes out the door. If someone is born in California but works in Ohio should they have to pay state tax in California for the job they work in Ohio? Of course not.