“A heads-up for any Bank of America customer: You might be getting questions about your citizenship status and even have your accounts frozen with no warning.”
“I didn’t do it as a status symbol. I did it because having a second passport is the ultimate insurance policy. It ensures that no matter what, you always have a place to go. To live. To work. To do business. To retire. And in some cases, even seek refuge. It also allows you more banking options, so you can move money out of your home jurisdiction (protecting your friends from frivolous lawsuits and overreaching governments). And even if you never end up needing or using your second passport, you will never be worse off for acquiring one.”
“The stated purpose of the bill was ‘to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.'”
Read more: https://thepointsguy.com/news/irs-blocking-americans-from-getting-passports/
“In turning to greater use of emigration controls, the US is embracing ever greater control of its domestic population and its resources. Such oversight of US citizens, however, was almost completely unknown in the nineteenth century.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/you-now-cant-leave-us-unless-irs-lets-you
“The United States is one of the only countries to tax based on citizenship, not residency. And the U.S. government has tightened its rules in recent years to make it more difficult for Americans to evade taxes by hiding money offshore. For Americans who reside in foreign countries, that can make it more difficult to find financial institutions who will let them open accounts.”
“The policy offers, at most, the illusion of security, purchased at an exorbitant cost to America’s moral reputation.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/trump-travel-ban-terrorism.html
“In the five years that Hickory Springs Manufacturing has begun offering to send its employees abroad for medical treatment, the company has saved over $10 million on health care costs.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/patients-without-borders-the-rise-of-medical-tourism/
“WeWork’s vast network of creatives and entrepreneurs, Neumann hopes, can help WeGrow students cultivate their passions.”
“Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the ‘import’ of labor — the in-migration of human beings.”
Read more: https://liberty-intl.org/2018/05/open-borders-trade-migration-entrepreneurship-and-prosperity/
“They didn’t find a crime, but they did find a picture of Charles with marijuana from over a year prior. Based on that picture, his visa was revoked.”