(obviously it privileged to think everyone can just pull up stakes and move to Italy, but it's equally naive to think we can magically turn the us into a first world country by voting harder)

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Even the liberals are doing the "Just move to Europe, bro" meme as if that isn't basically impossible for the majority of people. Like, if I could fuck off to Scotland, I would have done so as soon as I graduated high school.

    Oh yeah, and I have to pay taxes to the US even if I'm not living there because of citizenship-based taxation. It's not enough for the bourgeoisie to tell me to go away if I ever point certain things out, but they will still get a cut of my paycheck even if I do.

    • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah, and I have to pay taxes to the US even if I'm not living there because of citizenship-based taxation.

      I'm fairly certain the US has taxation treaties with a number of countries including the UK that prevent you paying tax to the US while living there so long as you don't make more than something like $200k a year.