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0 pointscperciva8y ago0 comments

Those dollars are going to get spent eventually; you just haven't waited long enough.

But the foreign assets issue is a peculiarly US problem, resulting from the US being almost unique in the world in the extent to which it imposes taxes on income earned in other countries. (The other such country is Eritrea, and the US voted in favour of a UN security council resolution condemning the Eritrean tax regime.)

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toomuchtodo8y ago

> Those dollars are going to get spent eventually; you just haven't waited long enough.

I'm unwilling to wait until the end of civilization while citizens of the richest country in the world go hungry [1], go without shelter [2], and die due to not being able to put $50 together for their insulin [3].

[1] https://www.worldhunger.org/hunger-in-america-2016-united-st...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

[3] https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/ezwwze/the-high-price-o...

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