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[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

The Republicans are also quite keen to end birthright citizenship, ie, if you are born on US territory, you are a citizen.

I guess they'll be attempting to make it so you have to born on the territory to ... probably two, not one, existing citizens.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Party of 'family values' ensuring families are torn apart! True patriots.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

But wouldn't that include almost everyone but native people?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Current archaeology has identified not one but two previous periods where humans lived in present-day America before the current 'first' nations. The last group, immediately before the current one, died suddenly and with tool marks showing on the long bones.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Okey fellow human, where did you crawl out of your mothers vagina?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unfortunately this also allows for wealthy people to participate in “birth tourism”. So many wealthy couples from China come to the US when pregnant just to have a child born in the states. I’m sure this is prevalent from many other countries as well, but I’ve seen first hand these couples from China.

No other country allows for such an easy path to citizenship.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So if those kids move back to China after getting US birth certificates and social security numbers, do they then pay US income taxes for the rest of their lives?

Are there any hard numbers on this practice?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd assume they'd be required to pay taxes once they're old enough to, but I'd be willing to bet that most of them don't unless they plan to ever actually move to the US.

I wonder how often the IRS actually goes after American citizens who don't live in the US, especially ones that haven't traveled to the US in more than 5+ years.

Edit: they might also be completely unaware that they need to pay taxes. If I'm not mistaken, the US is literally the only country in the world that requires you to pay taxes when living abroad. Logically speaking, it makes sense that you wouldn't have to pay taxes to a country you don't live in.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I’m sure this is precedent from many other countries

A section of a hospital in Canada was declared British soil (again) so that when a princess was born she was in England.

So we've had the reverse.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thats amazing lol.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah this doesn't actually happen and no you haven't fucking seen it first hand.

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