In the UK’s case the process of getting leave to remain in the UK for the spouse is expensive and complex and permission is frequently refused.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @LizardOrman and
The reasoning is that a non-citizen spouse coming to live in their citizen spouse’s home country gets special access to easy naturalisation, whereas in a third country they don’t.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @LizardOrman and
But, of course, the UK’s naturalisation process is actually absurdly onerous for everyone, including the spouses of British citizens.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @LizardOrman and
why are either of our countries like, why are they
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk and
I mean, the US is because a bunch of wealthy landowners overthrew the government because they didn't like being taxed so much
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Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl and
That would actually make *more* sense than reality. The Boston tea party was actually a protest against the UK *lowering* taxes in the colonies, not raising them.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @LizardOrman and
But the point of issue was that they felt that the power to set tax rates should be with the local rich people, not the distant rich people.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @LizardOrman and
And also they didn’t want to pay a share of the cost of the seven years war, even though the war was started in America by Americans, and a lot of the costs of it were due to defending the American territories.
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As I mentioned recently elsewhere, John Adams freely admitted the fundamental phoniness of the Revolution when he pointed out that in the 40 years following the new nation of the United States had *higher* taxes and *more* civil unrest than in the 40 years prior
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