A detailed set of guidelines for making monetary contributions to the government has recently been issued to overseas employees of companies and other citizens on business abroad. The guideline for making monetary contributions in support of the military was issued in the form of a National Defence Committee (NDC) order. A detailed set of guidelines stipulating the awards system for monetary contributions is unusual, but not unprecedented. Notably, such guidelines have been issued previously during times of economic crisis.
Based on guidelines issued by the government, those who make contributions of US$1,000 or more will be rewarded with a national decoration. Contributions of US$10,000 or more will guarantee the donor a ‘Letter of Appreciation’ from the President. Those who offer up more than US$100,000 will receive a Medal for Efforts. In addition, they will receive either an extension to their right to work abroad, or a guaranteed re-issue of their right to leave the country for business purposes.
This has resulted in increased pressure for overseas citizens to make monetary contributions, in addition to the usual taxes. According to our sources, there is a rumour spreading about how a businessman offered US$1,000,000 and received an important government position.
Read the full story at New Focus International.
Well, they do need a lot of money to continue to have adequate enforcement officers for the IRS: to hassle political groups related to the Tea Party; to seize illegally medical records of millions of Americans, and to extort the life savings of expats. Also the Justice Department needs funding to be able to go through the Associated Press’ phone records.
In other words, only a masochist would give to money to such a defense fund, just as only a masochist US expat would have voted for Obama in the election last time around.
I was wondering what I should do with all that cash now in my basement, now I know who to give $100K to !
What? Seriously? Are they raising donation money in the States too? Or would that be asking too much of the home-landers?
Eric, this is just too funny. I love it!
We should feel very proud to have the FBAR ‘n FATCA fundraiser, and US double taxation of those ‘abroad’ support this and the US national debt.
Somebody has to pay for the big bags of cash the CIA has been hand delivering to Karzai in Afghanistan for years now. As he says; “….“This is cash. It is the choice of the U.S. government,” President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan told reporters over the weekend. He was talking about the money that, he confirmed, he’d let the C.I.A. hand him over the years. He found it useful, “an easy source of petty cash.” Nor was he shy about being a head of state who took, as the Times described it, “wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags.” He wouldn’t say exactly how much was in those various bags; he had been told not to, and that imperative was apparently more binding than any interest the Afghan people—let alone American taxpayers—might have in knowing how money flowed through a Presidential office. The Times estimated that it was in the tens of millions….” http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/karzai-and-his-cash.html and
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/04/world/asia/afghanistan-cia-money
Monetary contributions to national defence? With their defence budget as high as it already is?
Bullshit!
Not on my life!
Well, given the options, I would rather donate the FBAR/FATCA-free money from my underneath my mattress to the US, rather than to North Korea.
(And yes, it’s North Korea asking for donations.)
@Sally, unfortunately, I’m not sure which is the greater bully. The US for picking on North Korea, or North Korea for picking on the US in return. Both seem to be bullies against the other. As such, I’d rather donate to China.
Sally,
I believe the similarities are tongue-in-cheek.
@SwissPinoy: The US is a far, far greater bully than North Korea. North Korea’s back is against the wall and there is little it can do. I doubt the Korean type response to US bullying is helping much though, as I doubt many in the US understand it.
That said, I think the US treats its citizens better than North Korea treats its citizens, despite our gripes about FBAR/FATCA. And I’m worried that North Korea’s desperation may result in a war.
@calgary411: Of course they are tongue-in-cheek. But it appears that not all respondents realized that.