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The following tweets reference two great summaries of the AARO FATCA meeting on October 6, 2014 in Paris:
Big news! @SenMikeLee opposes #FATCA and outlines specific steps to achive repeal https://t.co/hn4satz3iQ
— U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) October 7, 2014
@VictoriaFerague post on @AARO #FATCA meeting with @SenMikeLee and Jim Bopp http://t.co/3mNawWpvu0 "There is a tide in the affairs of men"
— U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) October 7, 2014
This is excellent and welcome news. What I particularly like are the specific reasons given for his opposition to FATCA and making his thinking the juridical basis for Jim Bopp’s FATCA Legal Action lawsuit.
As an aside – could it really be true that Senator Lee is the only “Constitutional Scholar” in the Senate? Also of note, is that Senator Lee’s father Rex Lee, served as Solicitor General under President Reagen.
It appears that Senator Lee has joined Senator Rand Paul as the first American politicians to actively oppose FATCA.
Welcome news indeed!
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