I Am Canada, Hear Me Roar, Mr. President — another letter to President Obama
from a Canadian…
We have no representation in the U.S. and no voice. Ironically, taxation without representation was the catalyst for the Boston Tea Party. We were children when we came to Canada. We are Canadians. Who will be our voice?
QUESTION:
Mr Wood, would you consider reprinting more of these letters as articles as you receive them?
Reply
Author, Robert W. Wood
Yes, I would indeed, thanks.
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You can email your story to Mr Wood at wood@WoodLLP.com
You can email your story to Mr Wood at wood@WoodLLP.com
The last letter, http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/08/15/dear-mr-president-why-im-leaving-america/ received 163,000 views. The Roar one is up to about 28,000 views. A number of his articles receive between 5,000 and 10,000 views. Someone suggested here on Brock that part of his compensation is the number of views his articles receive. Just imagine this, he just reprints letters and gets lots more views than the articles he writes himself.
I suggested to him that he reprint the MuzzledNoMore series.
It also shows that people are more interested in the reality side of story with letters from real people rather than from a journalist. Democrats Abroad posted their research. I tried to encourage AA, AARO, and RA to publish letters as well as kind of a Beijing Democracy Wall of letters.
That would be a good step.
@Charl and others have tried to suggest to him that he actually do some investigative journalism and get those in government behind FATCA to actually reconcile it with taxation without representation, services, and fairness.
Also, I see some history with Forbes that they like printing a letter to the President about once a year on some matter.
He’s been a MP3 of Boris’ interview as well.
Forbes? Appalling, backward, unbridled free-for-all view of ‘Market Place’ and capitalism.
It is the U.S. government officials who passed these crazy laws and who refuse to repeal them.
When the Marxist Income Tax was explained and the FairTax was explained to that same 100 people, 91 preferred the FairTax, (a national sales tax that is revenue neutral, but paid by those who purchase goods and services inside the borders of the U.S.) and they say that we the people are the government. Don’t believe it. A new tea party that mimics the old one, it appears, will be the only answer.
Politicians have one job from the day they are elected—re election—, they extort money to do tax favors for the ”tax extenders” they were paid to enact, and every election year they get paid again to extend the tax breaks another 2 years. It would be a criminal act except they passed a law making it legal for them to extort money this way. they have a favorable rating of 9% and yet they somehow get re elected by a margin of 95%. OK ALL YOU EXPATS—-WRITE SOMEONE AND ASK THEM TO PASS THE FAIRTAX AND ASK YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS DOWN HERE TO CALL OR WRITE IN BEHALF OF THE FAIRTAX. For 5 dollars U.S. you can join Americans for fair taxation. send the money and make a dozen of your stateside relatives members. If you don’t have the money, join and send me the bill!
@Wilton Tidwell. I can’t say I support the fair tax. While it may relieve some burden of CBT if you live overseas it does not address FATCA or CBT. The whole taxation, double taxation issue itself is very complex so best to keep focus. Fair Tax is just US based. While ADCS is definitely Canadian based.
@terry
Are you concerned that associating ourselves with Forbes might tarnish our image?
Just want to say that I’m pleased “I am Canada – Hear me roar” is getting attention! Even Mr. Woods is sympathetic.
ROAR!!!
@JC, The fair tax bill would repeal the entire subtitles A (income tax), B (payroll taxes) and C (estate and gift taxes) of the tax code, most of subtitle F (all those IRS forms), and abolish the IRS itself. The whole tax system would be gone, including of course CBT and FATCA. It does address everything. What would remain is a national sales tax, similar to the Canadian GST, which is obviously territorial. I think it would be great, but I don’t think there is any chance that Congress would approve it. It’s supported by only a third of Republicans and no Democrats.
Canada has income tax in addition to GST.
Exactly right.
I am bawling! I sent a letter to Mr. Wood in San Francisco prior to going on vacation. I am the author of “We have no representation …”
Ann #1,
So this is a surprise to you, not having seen it while you were on vacation. As the author of the letter to President Obama / we have no representation as published by Robert Woods at Forbes, thanks very much for your initiative!
@Calgary 411 … Big, big shock! I have not had internet since the 11th of November. I really never truly believed it would be published, but wanted to draw attention to the plight of those who are still US citizens with signing authority on an employer’s account. I felt that he would understand this situation best as a lawyer himself. I am deeply appreciated of this individual using his blog to give us a voice, a face, representation.
@Calgary411 @Ann #1 How could I miss/ I trying to find “We have no representation” Please post link. Last few weeks Canada Roar and one about Boris Johnson. Another one?
@ JC … Sorry, it’s the “Canada Roars”. It took me a little bit to realize that they were talking about my letter on the Brock site as I saw the paragraph “We have no representation” in red and thought that Mr. Woods had only quoted me. Then, I realized that there was a link and partly because I never believed that it would be printed, it took awhile to sink in. I only wanted to draw attention to those who are still US citizens with signing authority of Canadian employers. The US does not need that info, PERIOD!
You wrote the Roar article. ! That is quite a nice one.
The Roar article did not focus on signature authority.
This one talks more about signature authority:
https://adcsovereignty.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/how-the-fatca-iga-has-made-u-s-citizenship-a-disability-in-canada-and-highlighted-the-issue-of-law-firm-trust-accounts/
@ Ann #1
I thought it was you but now it’s confirmed. Bravo! BTW, almost 34,000 views already — that’s a lot of outreach.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/11/18/mayor-boris-johnsons-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-as-an-american/
Perhaps we should follow Mayor Boris Johnsons’ lead and ignore the IRS.
Robert Wood Is a little parasitic amoebic bloodsucking tax accountant dependent on the blood
of others. Nothing but a leech made relevant by a disgraceful US policy that has no moral or ethical foundation. Every single one of his articles has the undertone of “call me” with your FATCA/FBAR troubles. Call me, just like the Blondie song about male prostitute Richard Gere.
Wood is a lower than a prostitute. FATCA is such a gross affront to so many innocent people who just want a normal life. No accountant, no lawyer, should profit from this abomination
If Wood had a real set of balls he would voice a STRONG article in Forbes against FATCA.
Derailing it from head to toe.
But the chance of that is like Obama signing the repeal FATCA bill tommorrow.
An accountant or lawyer undermining their own livelihood?? Elephants flying have a better chance.
Yes Dareth! Yes, yes, yes. He’s an ambulance-chaser. And this site’s association with Forbes? Pardon me while I throw up!
terry,
Our relationship with any media, including Robert Wood at Forbes, is to get this story, the US citizenship-based taxation problems for US-defined US Persons Abroad, in front of as many people as possible.
Do you have any constructive suggestions?
@Terry, and Gareth,
Sorry for your nausea, but you know, we all get excited whenever our issue comes up somewhere in the media. Its been a long fight, and not looking to end anytime soon so I hope you can understand. Yes, most of us agree that Wood is an asswipe. We just don’t actually say it.