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I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one. Sure, you could argue that this forcible theft is worth it, and I'll respect that, but it's still not crazy to be upset.

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Why don't you leave the US? If the answer amounts to you like the public goods here - roads, relatively clean air, relatively low crime, etc etc etc - then in fact what you're saying is you want to free ride, i.e., enjoy the benefits of taxes, without actually paying.

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US still taxes citizens that move out of the US.

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There are a number of countries with short (3yr) residency requirements for citizenship you could move to and then renounce your American citizenship if you wanted.

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the US has an exit tax, which would tax all of my assets that I own worldwide as though I'd sold them all. But even despite this I've been seriously considering it. My main problem is being too far away from my family.

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Only if you own over $2,000,000 UDS worth of assets and have an income from your assets of over $725,000 per annum. If you can't avoid this then you have enough money to not worry about paying the tax.