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?