Congress to introduce Foreign Washing Machine Compliance Act (FWMCA) to fight...
Recently, reports have surfaced that drug dealers are abandoning the U.S. dollar in favour of a cleaner, more liquid medium of exchange. From The Daily: Tide has become a form of currency on the...
View ArticleSenate passes passport-confiscation "highway bill" (S. 1813)
S. 1813, the highway (robbery) bill with amendments that let the Treasury Department ban credit cards from non-FATCA banks and give the IRS the power to take away expats’ passports, passed the Senate...
View ArticleFEIE expansion proponent Jim DeMint (R-SC) stepping down from Senate seat
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Jim DeMint will step down from his position as junior senator from South Carolina to become the head of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. For...
View ArticleBipartisan attempts to exile former U.S. citizens, 2002–2008
Many “U.S. Persons” outside of the U.S. are aware of the Reed Amendment — an incoherent & unenforceable 1996 law which makes former U.S. citizens inadmissible to the U.S. if the Attorney General...
View ArticleCongress knew about diaspora’s “phantom gains” problem in 1986 & refused to...
As USCitizenAbroad pointed out in 2012 (and as Phil Hodgen more recently reminded us), the “Internal” Revenue Code penalises Americans in other countries who want to become homeowners: Assuming a...
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Why aren’t Democrats Abroad screaming “Patty Judge for Iowa” at the tops of...
After decades of coasting to reelection, Sen. Chuck Grassley is facing his toughest race yet. Iowa political observers say the 82-year-old Republican senator known for his independent streak could be...
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