Out tonight on the Wall Street Journal, this new story: Obama’s IRS Snoops Abroad
Who wants American partners when that means opening up the books to U.S. bureaucrats?
Within the United States, almost no American has heard of it. Save for the occasional article, it’s gone largely uncovered. And just like ObamaCare, the nastiest, job-killing aspects will not hit until after this November’s election.
This article deserves our attention, comments and circulation. It has only been online for about 2 hours and 8 comments so far, so let’s start adding them. 🙂
You have to be a WSJ subscriber to read and comment.
@Ann,
You have to sign up for a free account to comment, but that is easy. I have done that many times. If you are having problems seeing the entire piece, just copy and past the title into Google News, and that will bring up the entire thing…
still waiting for them to send me another email to confirm address…….
Another great article. I’ll sign up to post a comment in the morning. Looks like a lot of supportive comments already!
I have been busy posting comments. One of my own, and then some in response to others. Please, send this article as far and as wide as you possibly can. I have already tweeted it a few times, and sent it to my journalist list. I will probably target a few other online submissions for web sites that only accept input via their own line input boxes rather than direct email.
To read the WSJ article, copy and paste the name of the article into Google and search on it. Then click on it at the wsj.com address. Name of article: Obama’s IRS Snoops Abroad
The above process allows you access behind the paywall without a subscription.
@Petros, Could we come up with a system to start tagging the positive posts as ‘supportive’, ‘hall of fame’, ‘actually written by an intelligent journalist’, or something like that. That way there could be a category or a link so people could see all the supportive, well-done articles in one place and could be a good resource to direct people to when needed.
Comments are up to 45 this morning, and the story is getting read and mostly supportive with an occasional ignorant one.
A couple other FATCA related issues today to go along with this…
Envy and Resentment Lead to Bad Law
FATCA Is About to Change but Is Still Challenging
The legislation’s penalties may end up killing more U.S. jobs than all the call centers in India combined.
@just me, my ineptness can’t get me around the pay wall, but I have read many of the comments. I could literally hear the penny drop in response to yours! Great job!
Thankfully, my tech support found the article in its entirety for me. My only complaint? FATCA wasn’t spelled in upper case!
another follow on from McGurn’s article…
From Independent Women’s Forum, online
Why Europe Doesn’t Want to Do Business with Americans
@bubblebustin
I knew you could do it!! You are not inept! For others, let me go through the process again.
Just go to http://news.google.com/
In the search box, type in Obama’s IRS Snoops Abroad
Hit enter.
That will take you to a summary and a link.
It looks like this, and should be the first one that comes up…
Click on the link, and you will have access to the story. 🙂
Just finished reading all the WSJ comments from where I left off last night. Thank you Brockers and Julian (honourary Brocker) for making such a great effort to advance our case against the overreach of the IRS with its heavy consequences of losing American jobs and exports and even its own citizens through relinquishment. And special thanks to Just Me because I now have the secret key to accessing WSJ articles. Sorry to just be a lurker at WSJ but for my own sanity I keep my internet interactions down to a point where I can still have a semblance of a normal life. Writing doesn’t come as fast and easy to me as the amazing Just Me, Petros, Roger, Schubert, Julian and others so if you all can just take a listen, I am sitting here and applauding you for both your talents and your efforts.
A treat for all …
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=GBaHPND2QJg&feature=youtu.be
@Em,
I’m with you in the applauding arena. I can’t keep up with everything and still do what I have to do. I so very much appreciate those very literary Brockers providing the debate, those you have mentioned and so many others. All you mention ARE Brockers.
@em… Thanks for the shout out, and the nice video break… Of course I could not stop with that one, and had to follow a few others… 🙂
@all
National Review has now put up an article called Vulture State at Work referencing Bill McGurn’s story.
great comments on the WSJ McGurn article Brockers!
bubblebustin –
Them whats got th kind of tech sport you got doan need nuthin else, n doan let noboddy tell you diffrent!
On the FATCA thing, I’m with you. That lowercasing is probably what’s called “house style” – I’m guessing the weird perversion at WSJ and elsewhere is based on a dubious subjective notion that an acronym that gets pronounced like a word gets spelled with just one uppercase letter at the front. The way the language goes these days, that approach is just plain flat and dumb. One great example of intermingling from a few decades back: FighTbAck And then there’s the fine surname Bftsplk –
@em, I like that ‘flash’ symphony. I was half expecting a drone strike though. I think I’ve gotten way too cynical.
@usxcanada, lol. It’s a blessing we can type FATCA without switching shift keys.
AHHH Somebody posted a link on the WSJ article to ING France, which explicitly states that they are not complying with FATCA and do not accept US clients.
https://formulaire.ingdirect.fr/formsecure?command=displayOCChoiceAccountP&space=FS
I’m with ING Belgium…Hurry up CLN!!!!!
@Just Me and all, Thanks so much for the great link. One of the best stories I’ve read highlighting our issues with FBAR/FATCA/citizenship-based taxation. And all of your comments are outstanding. Let’s cross our fingers and hope this gets widely circulated. Perhaps private emails (if possible) to the author would be helpful so he knows how much we appreciate his work. And, yes, he does deserve to be in the “Hall of Fame” 🙂
@Don
Do you mind giving us a quick translation of the page you linked to previously. Google translate says the link is invalid and even though I’m Swiss I can’t read French 🙂 I think the part on the bottom right-hand side of the page that starts:
“Information « US Person »
Si vous êtes une « US Person » au……
would be intersting. Thanx in advance!
@Don, UncleTell, that ING link is worth new thread. I’ll work on that.
Robert Woods at Forbes followed up with a Story on the WSJ McGurn story…
More Bad News For FATCA