Americans Abroad

It got out of hand, just like the mortgage debacle, and I think they all know some form of relief is called for.

As for taxation of Americans residing abroad, my unbiased opinion is that Bernie would be the least inclined to listen to us. It wouldn't fit in with his message, which, as his supporters accurately claim, has not wavered in decades. The nastier of his supporters (which, I'm sad to say, seem to constitute the majority) seem to think that every American residing abroad is only doing so to hide ill-gotten billions from paying their "fayah shayah." Katrina of The Nation knows that's not true, as does Jim Dean, but they won't have a say in his stances. Hillary, as a former SoS, should at least be receptive to the reason for a necessity for reform. However, so far she hasn't wasted a word on us, and therefore has no more claim to my endorsement than either of the other two. If she is elected, and if she retains Howard, then I WILL have a conduit in there, and can maybe budge the boulder a bit.

We Americans residing abroad may even include a billionaire or two hiding offshore money, but the other 6 million of us are not doing anything of the sort, and we constitute a bloc more populous than at least 30 of the individual States. You'd think SOMEONE would listen!