Victoria and Blaze ask in the article: How did the “simple premise” of “cracking down on illegal tax evasion and closing loopholes” become an attack on financial lives and personal integrity of millions of people living outside United States, their banks and laws and constitutions of their countries of residence?”
@Victoria
You recommended his blog on yours so I sent him a link to the Hill article a couple of days ago 😉
Like you, he is a very good writer.
I seem to remember that he waded in at Brock some time ago, and says he visits for FATCA news.
Wonderful! Oh that’s great to hear, bubblebustin, and thank you. Yeah, he’s very interested in FATCA and how it effects the folks in his town in Thailand. There is also Ken in Mexico who writes a fair bit about it as well.
What’s really wacky about all this is that it didn’t happen all at once but little by little we’ve created (thanks to Isaac Brock, Maple Sandbox, Just Me’s twitter feed and others) a NETWORK. And it just keeps growing. Who knew that this would happen a year ago?
@Victoria,
Not only a network, but a community of like minded individuals who seek liberty by whatever means their individual circumstance takes. Ironic that a citizen must seek liberty from their country, the USA, the worlds most self-proclaimed proponent of freedom and liberty.
@all, We need to keep posting comments, so that this article stays at the forefront.
@all, It would be awesome if people who not commented so far, could add their voice to the growing chorus.
@ WhiteKat
I just did another comment (a reply) and e-mailed some family and friends to ask them to please click on the article link to try to keep in Most Viewed. I click on the article many times a day but it’s all from the same ISP address so I don’t know if my clicks get counted. Thought it was worth a try anyway … besides I want to see any new comments as they come up and give them an up arrow. They are 99.9% up arrowable — an excellent response I’d say. Again, Blaze and Victoria — THANK YOU for doing this article and may there be MORE, PLEASE?
@all
I’ve been sending the link to my friends so that they’ll up arrow my comment keeping mine as “BEST”, hehehe…
THe legislature is interested in arguments that affect US business — trade deficit issues, jobs for Americans, ability to sell US financial products.
Just Me, I actually just deleted my Twit account yesterday. Getting rid of my social media. But thanks. Steal my words for the cause anytime.
Bubblebustin, lol. Sometimes I find that using easy to access imagery resonates more with people than writing a whole essay. I suppose that if a person wanted to use the highly questionable Rapture in this sense, it would be to point out that one day our “foreign” accounts could be “raptured up” to the homeland. But as imagery goes that just doesn’t work for me.
Victoria, thanks for the link. I have been looking for a good blog in Thailand as I could be living there in the not so distant future.
@bubblebustin,
That is cheating! LOL…. I thought you had 34 ups cause you wrote an awesome post!
@Victoria. To use Malcom Gladwell’s principles, maybe we have reached the ‘Tipping Point’. Long latent period then rapid exponential acceleration. Hoping for this.
@WhiteKat
I did ask them to up arrow it if they liked it, not just because they are my friends 🙂 and I only asked them today to do it, when I was still in the lead (I say with utmost humility). I need a more comfortable distance between me and Marylouise Serrato from ACA, lol!
@Joe Zinga
Great book The Tipping Point. Will everything bad about CBT enforced by FATCA, the renunciations, the loss that those renunciations represent, can they counter the visions of bounty in their heads?
@bubblebustin,
Sure you did! Anyhow, it IS an awesome comment!
@WhiteKat
I *blush*.
@Mark Twain, good points.
Bravo bubblebustin, WhiteKat, swisstechie, Just Me, and all others leaving comments and arrowing!
Will continue to do my duty too.
Wow, there are a lot of quality comments continually being added to the Hill article. Keep it up people!
@bubblebustin, It was indeed a damn fine comment.
@Joe, We think alike. If we can just use Graffy’s article and perhaps this one to get other publications to take notice because, hey, the topic IS of interest and WILL generate hits and readers.
So all you writers out there, go for it! 🙂
@Victoria, WhiteKat
Thank you. It’s my usual rant that everyone’s heard so far, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Anyone have family in the U.S. willing to comment. My dad is but he is 74 and trying to figure out how to participate. @bubblebustin, LOL! Did you pass Mary Louise yet?
@AtticusinCanada
I’ve broken out with a 10 point lead 🙂
Need some more readers to keep at the top.
While we are celebrating our 48 hr news cycle success, maybe now it it time for some sobering news in a light hearted way.
I have heard several interviews recently with a Mark Leibovich about his new book, “This Town” where he suggests that America’s low opinion of Washington D.C. might still be too high.
I could point you to several other interviews, but thought this one last one night on the Daily Show you might enjoy or get “demoralized to the core of your being”. If you are ready for that, I recommend watching it. If you wonder why nothing gets fixed like CBT or why we have FATCA, or how corrupted our system has become, this story of the DC culture says it all…
Part I
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-29-2013/mark-leibovich
Part II
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-29-2013/exclusive—mark-leibovich-extended-interview-pt–2
Part III
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-29-2013/exclusive—mark-leibovich-extended-interview-pt–3
In Canada try …
http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?videoPackage=136914
It stopped playing near the end but I caught most of it. John Oliver is doing a good job filling in for Jon Stewart/Leibowitz.
bothia no workia in Scandinavia