Starting The Road To Freedom.

The happiest day in my wife's life will be when she receives THIS. She has contributed to Canada for over 10 years since her landing sixteen years ago and has helped to support this family. After she receives her Canadian citizenship, she will no longer have to deal with the self-entitled types back in the country where she was birthed (It's not home anymore) who expect her to pay her "fair-share" while she receives no benefits, no representation...or anything connected with the United States; who lift up their hands in self-entitled greed backed by statute, expecting that she will pay their way when it would take food off our family's table and the clothes off our children's backs.

She has paid her FAIR SHARE to Canada, for 10 years and counting, for the roads that she uses, for the sidewalks that she walks on; for the education that our children (born in Canada) have received, for the health-care that she and our family receives in Canada and all for the love of our family.

And like my father who took out his Canadian citizenship, 50 years to the day that he landed on Canadian soil (because he chose to give his life with work and paying taxes to Canada before receiving his benefits - he did not feel entitled to take out citizenship before retirement - his exact words were, he "owed Canada for providing him and his family a life"); after emigrating from Japan in 1956 and he died a Canadian in 2009. My father would be ashamed if he could see HIS Canada today, the country that he loved because he wanted his beloved daughter-in-law to have the same rights that he did that he worked so hard for. My father was a simple man, he worked hard and provided for his family and in turn he helped my family while I was getting on my feet (that is the love of an Asian father). My father never had the chance to vote as a Canadian yet he paid his taxes to Canada throughout his life. My wife wants to be a Canadian so that she has the full rights of being able to vote in this country that my father was unable to (because he died before he could exercise his right to vote); to exercise the rights and freedoms provided by the Charter of Rights & Freedoms of Canada. My father loved this country, yet our country fails to protect the daughter-in-law that he loved, as much as I love.

I love my country, but my country has betrayed me twice: First when it interned my loyal maternal grandfather's (grandfather, grandmother, uncles and my mother) family in Slocan. Second when it said to my wife and 1M+ other Canadians and permanent residents (those who have moved here with the intention of gaining citizenship in Canada) that they were second-class citizens) and that "Congress had spoken" as if Canada was a lapdog of the United States or even worse, the 51st State of the Union. I still LOVE Canada, with all my heart and soul, but I stand here a jaded man, bitter and angry, that the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives would relegate my wife and 1M+ others and their Canadian families to the role of second class-citizen.

So to anyone who would dismiss that loyalty, that love of country. who says that she is a second-class Canadian resident, and/or self-entitledly feel that she should give you something or scream fair-share due to the fact that she is of a citizenship (that she cannot shed fast enough) of a country that practices a taxation form that is only matched by that of a 3rd World Banana Republic and supports an administration that has persecuted her because of it: FUCK YOU!!!

To the friends-in-arms (who are going through this crap) like Bubblebustin', Trisha Moon, SwissTechie, Gwenny and Petros who have been instrumental in becoming a support group and network and loyal friends, Thank you; you mean more to me and to my wife than you know.

To my friends from school who actually do understand the situation who knew me before I became this seething ball of rage, thank you for standing by me, for believing that I am still the same person you once knew in school as a caring and understanding guy underneath all this rage at this injustice and that all my rage that I have presented here on this page is mainly because I hate persecution, especially when it is unjust. I will not pay taxes to a government that I derive no benefit from and I should think that my wife feels the same. That is why my wife has no problems paying taxes to Canada because she derives benefits from being a Canadian resident. If you think anything different of me just because I rage at injustice, then as George Carlin once said, "I don't give a fuck, Go Fuck Yourself."

My wife WILL get her Canadian citizenship; she will become a loyal Canadian; she will vote for the next prime minister of Canada but the satisfaction of my beloved wife becoming Canadian will be bittersweet tempered because I know now that Canada is not the shining beacon of fairness and equality that it holds herself out to be.

Degradation of Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

The Democrats instigated this against 9M+ Americans Abroad then when people started objecting with their feet (renouncing citizenship) these same Democrats raised the renunciation of citizenship fee from $450.00 to $2350.00. How is that not "obstruction of free will" and the statutes of Section 349 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1481). Note that even if you lose your citizenship by any of these acts - unless you pay them their "protection money" for five years (previous to your loss of nationality even if you've received NOTHING from the US Government for those five years), you are still considered a US citizen in the eyes of the IRS and Department of Treasury? Essentially US citizens are slaves. They may be happy slaves and like Uncle Tom, they may enjoy thinking that they're on the "best plantation" in the world but they're still slaves.

In the Declaration of Independence under Inalienable Rights: The Committee of Five altered Thomas Jefferson's quote of "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; ..." to "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The Democrats in violation of the US Declaration of Independence decided that they would restrict US expatriate's Liberty and their pursuit of Happiness" with a restrictive $2350.00 renunciation fee. In that regards, apparently the Democrats feel that the US Declaration of Independence is NOT worth the paper that it is written on. Yet idiots on both sides of the fence (both Democrat and Republican) do not realize the slippery slope that we are going down in doing so. Jingoistic cheers of "If you don't want to be in the greatest country in the world, then get out!" and "pay your fair share"...What Expatriates want is to let go of their US citizenship (renounce) without having to pay exhorbitant fees (it seems as though the US would rather keep them as slaves rather than as free men (and women)) which go into domestic benefits rather than any benefits that expatriates receive (which is absolutely nothing). So why are expatriates paying taxes to a government when they receive absolutely nothing for it? Is that not a degradation of "liberty and the pursuit of happiness": being treated as tax chattel with the benefit of being treated as nothing more than income to the government from which the expat derives nothing and the homelander derives all benefits from whatever the expatriate paid in taxes to the US government? Does ANYONE in their right mind think that type of taxation is fair?

Elizabeth Warren: Hypocrite.

Evidently today, Senator Elizabeth Warren, (D-MA) lambasted the CEO of Wells Fargo in a blistering diatribe.

@SenWarren have you taken a look in your mirror after you lambasted the Wells Fargo CEO. Those same words can apply to your position- #FATCA May I remind you of the letter you sent out to an expat explaining your party's search for the elusive $100B tax cheats.

“I recognize that FATCA implementation has not been perfect(author's note: yet they still go ahead with it), and it troubles me that financial institutions overseas would deny services to Americans out of concern over FATCA compliance. However, according to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the U.S. Treasury may be losing more than $100 billion in tax revenues every year as a result of offshore tax havens (author's note: unadulterated, unqualified falsehoods - read as complete and utter bullshit). I believe measures like FATCA clamp down on overseas tax evasion and help make sure that everyone pays their fair share of taxes. (author's note: read that as scam more money out of people who don't derive any benefit from the United States)”

You said to the Wells Fargo CEO: "You squeezed your employees to the breaking point so they would cheat customers and you could drive up the value of your stock and put hundreds of millions of dollars in your own pocket.". Well, You and your Democratic cronies squeezed expats of modest income to the point where they felt that they had no choice but to be extorted into financially breaking penalties or into the arms of the gratified compliance condors who waited to pick over the remnants of any finances that were remaining. I'm sure you won't turn down that fat paycheck of yours or any fat increase in pay if budgeted in next years fiscal budget, will you? Perhaps a look in the mirror will show you your hypocrisy but then again, I'd bet on a civilization-ending meteor striking earth before you came to the conclusion that you were wrong.

"And when it all blew up you kept your job, you kept your multimillion-dollar bonuses and you went on television to blame thousands of $12 an hour employees that were just trying to meet cross-sell quotas that made you rich". - Oh, I'm sure you will continue to blame the expats for the fact that you cannot find the elusive $100B in unpaid taxes that are reputed to be floating somewhere offshore while YOU keep raking in your substantial paycheck for being a non-contributing windbag in a House of windbags.

YOU...ma'am, are just as much a bloodsucker as the Wells Fargo CEO. FATCA is a scam, selling lies to Americans about fake billions of offshore unpaid taxes: You should take your own advice to Stumpf - "This is about accountability. You should resign. You should give back the money that you took while this scam was going on…This just isn't right."

I won’t go into the “fair share” and other bullshit because you know very well that there is no fair share paying taxes to a foreign country from whom you derive nothing. And since this cold is already driving me up a wall, I have no desire to throw up today.

The US is a Hypocrite in Implementing FATCA.

The Stamp Act of 1765; an act of Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a “revenue tax” on the Thirteen Colonies was the spark in the tinder that lit off the Revolutionary War of 1775. Colonists objected to the act that taxed their colonies without representation in Parliament. Petitions were given to Parliament and roundly ignored, prompting an outburst in response to the accusations from Charles Townsend of being ungrateful, “and now will these Americans, children planted by our care, nourished up by our Indulgence until they are grown to a degree of strength and opulence, and protected by our arms, will they grudge to contribute their mite to relieve us from heavy weight of the burden which we lie under?” This provoked a reply from Colonel Isaac Barré which read: “They planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted ‘em in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and unhospitable country where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and among others to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I take upon me to say, the most formidable of any people upon the face of God’s earth. …

They nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of ‘em. As soon as you began to care about ‘em, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule over 'em, in one department and another, who were perhaps the deputies of deputies to some member of this house, sent to spy out their liberty, to misrepresent their actions and to prey upon 'em; men whose behaviour on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them … .

They protected by your arms? They have nobly taken up arms in your defence, have exerted a valour amidst their constant and laborious industry for the defence of a country whose frontier while drenched in blood, its interior parts have yielded all its little savings to your emolument … The people I believe are as truly loyal as any subjects the king has, but a people jealous of their liberties and who will vindicate them if ever they should be violated; but the subject is too delicate and I will say no more.”

Yet two hundred and thirty five years later, America would invoke their own “stamp act” – named the Hire Act, ratified by Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, which embedded within lay the controversial Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) – a timebomb of epic proportions with severe ramifications for the colonists of today, American expatriates who lived in countries abroad. These Americans abroad were either dual citizens or citizens of one country born to an American abroad carrying a Trojan horse citizenship which existed solely to decimate their “foreign” bank accounts considered local to those “Americans” who lived in those countries and worked there.

Under the guise of rooting out tax-cheats (while vilifying hard-working Americans abroad) with their own version of Charles Townsend’s venomous, scurrilous accusations of “look at what we have done for you, we protect you under our nuclear umbrella…and you have the benefits (which no one can actually quantify) of being an American…so pay your fair share”, they set about to scrape up every single rotten cent of “taxation without representation” as their English fore-rulers did before them. In fact, the United States of America is embarking on the same road as their English forebears did 235 years prior. In fact a popular slogan in pre-Revolutionary War Boston was the phrase coined by James Otis: “taxation without representation is tyranny” later shortened to “No Taxation Without Representation”. In fact the very essence of the Revolutionary War was rebellion against citizenship taxation.

Americans Abroad of modern times have taken up that cry. Because one after the other, our spineless governments have capitulated under threats of 30% penalties/sanctions (U.S. payors making payments to non-compliant foreign financial institutions are required to "deduct and withhold from such payment a tax equal to 30 percent of the amount of such payment".) levied against their financial institutions. These are tactics comparable to La Familia protectionist rackets. This financial levy has caused the rest of the world to institute laws to permit the otherwise illegal act of defying their own Banking Privacy Acts. In fact Canada rewrote its own Banking Privacy Law to make it legal for FATCA to stick their tentacles into the Canadian banking system.

FATCA is economic warfare. Allowing a foreign country to siphon revenue from a nation’s revenue stream is capitulation to economic warfare. Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]. So any national leader who signed the United States Internal Revenue Service’s Inter-Governmental Agreement (henceforth referred to as IGA) is now defined as a traitor to their country and subject to prosecution under each nation’s treason statutes.

Citizenship taxation is only practiced by two countries. The first being the third world country of Eritrea; the second being the United States of America. The second nation hypocritically vilified the first for its practice of levying 2% taxes against their expatriates.

The United States is a hypocrite when it comes to citizenship taxation. Its inception was based on protest against citizenship taxation (taxation without representation) – its reasons for making war against Great Britain; the US’s progenitor. Yet it subjects its own citizens abroad (in the same situation as the 13 Colonies) to the same kind of taxation as it fled from two hundred and thirty five years ago. It must be said that Isaac Barré’s words ring true today as it did then: “They nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of ‘em. As soon as you began to care about ‘em, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule over 'em, in one department and another, who were perhaps the deputies of deputies to some member of this house, sent to spy out their liberty, to misrepresent their actions and to prey upon 'em; men whose behaviour on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them …”

We, who have toiled to create our own fortune, paying taxes to the land within which we reside, to the foreign nations in which we toil, have been preyed upon by the Internal Revenue Service, for our meagre wealth; while those lying within the borders of our native land scream hypocritically for our heads and our wealth.

Samuel Adams stated: "For if our Trade may be taxed why not our Lands? Why not the Produce of our Lands & every thing we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our Charter Right to govern & tax ourselves – It strikes our British Privileges, which as we have never forfeited them, we hold in common with our Fellow Subjects who are Natives of Britain: If Taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal Representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the Character of free Subjects to the miserable State of tributary Slaves."

Samuel Adams charges that we are tributary slaves with the implementation of taxation without representation. The representation being where expats currently live; yet no matter how expats are allowed to vote in the states from which they originated, they are never represented. The politicians represent those who reside within the state and curry the bonus votes of expats from those states whilst ignoring them. So no, there is no representation in any sense of the word.

And if there is no representation, there should be no tax or there should be open rebellion.

My family has chosen the latter: We choose to pay taxes to no-one except the leaders of the land in which we reside in and deem to be protected by. As a Canadian born citizen of Canada married to an American Abroad, I should have expected protection for my wife and my accidental American citizen progeny who were born here in Canada. Yet our treasonous leaders in government capitulated and threw one million plus dual citizens of Canada with US ties under the bus. And the United States has exhibited supreme hypocrisy in initiating the same kind of taxation for which they vilified Great Britain for two hundred and thirty five years previous.

If Youse Gonna Move Here, Youse Better Pass This Test, Eh?

Youse need to be able to speak Canadian, eh.

Jack Lew accuses EU of "Reaching into US Tax Base"

Apple Penalty is Tax Overreach: Claims Jack Lew, Dept. of Treasury. How ironic... 9.8M Americans agree...that tax overreach is bad. Too bad Jack Lew can't see where it's coming from.

The Rabble Wants Blood - Expat Blood.