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17,359 Americans have renounced their citizenship under Barack Obama

• sovereignman.com

This brings the total number of US 'renunciants' under the Obama administration to 17,359.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when a government's tax policy is so oppressive that it drives people to permanently divorce themselves from their country.

Now, it's easy to dismiss these people as traitors and cowards, and to say "good riddance, we didn't want you anyhow."

But consider that many of these renunciants are what I call 'accidental Americans'.

This could be someone born in, say, Thailand, to an American father and Thai mother.

Automatically at birth, the child is a US citizen due to his father's nationality.

He grows up in Thailand for his entire life, barely ever setting foot on US soil.

He goes on to have a successful life, until, one day, he receives a 'Dear John' letter in the mail from the US government congratulating him on all his success.


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