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Wednesday, 16 March 2011 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 4 Comments »

Since I started this site I've had a Google News thingy tracking things like "renounce citizenship". Every once in a while, something interesting comes along. A couple months ago there began the annual string of stories about people giving up US ...

Renouncing US citizenship NOT too expensive for the wealthy

Friday, 19 June 2009 by Mike Gogulski
mind control | 8 Comments »

Canada's Investment Executive makes a blitheringly stupid set of assumptions in "New rules make renouncing citizenship too expensive for U.S. expats": New U.S. expatriation rules, introduced one year ago, governing U.S. citizens or long-time green card holders who wish to ...

231 ex-Americans in 2008

Friday, 8 May 2009 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 5 Comments »

Via planadviser: [T]ax concerns might be why [...] retiring abroad is not something happening in waves. Several hundred retirees each year renounce citizenship. "It's not something you see people doing in mass amounts at all," [E&Y's Cheryl Spielman] said. In ...

Educating for anarchism #4 — a reply to FSK

Tuesday, 13 January 2009 by Mike Gogulski
philosophy | 18 Comments »

Fellow agorist blogger FSK late last year explored the question: "Is Participating in the State Economy Immoral?" The short answer, of course, is an emphatic "no", unless you're going to adopt the patently insane position that we're all criminals for doing ...