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TheRealMafoo on 11 July 2010
kowenicki said:
TheRealMafoo said:
kowenicki said:

will you still vote?  even though you have legged it to NZ?  You are still allowed to I believe?


Yea, I will still be a US Citizen, so I can vote. I won't be able to vote in NZ until I become a Citizen (long process). NZ and the US both allow dual citizenship, so I will always be able to vote in the US as long as I don't give up my US citizenship, and I have no plans to do so.

If I became rich, I might, because for every dollar over $94,000 US you earn, you pay taxes in both countries. I won't be making that much money. If one day I am making $200,000 US and have no plans of coming back, I might look into giving it up.

I have a client that moved to NZ last year... any income he receives from the UK into NZ is free of any tax for the first 5 years...   dont know if that is useful to you or if it works from the US. 

So we have left his assets in the UK for now and will drip them across as the NZ dollar weakens... its reasonably strong right now.  he loves it by the way.... but then he is 60 !      Says it reminds him of England as it used to be.


Funny, when people ask me how NZ was, the best response I can give is "It's how the US should be". People are nice, no crime, everyone helps everyone. The feeling of community is amazing. I guess it's the mentality you get being a relatively small number of people living on some islands in the south pacific. You hear about the rest of the world, but that's them. Everyone here is us.

I like that... a lot. Oh, and next month I will be 41, so I am not that far behind him ;)

Oh, and as far as I know, the US does not give you a 5 year window, but I didn't look that far. I just saw the cap was more then I make, and I stopping looking into it.



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SciFiBoy on 11 July 2010

Obama - overhpyed, overrated, not even remotley near what I would call a "mild" socialist, let alone a proper one.

Anyone else - republican party is a right wing moron club, Obama is at least somewhat tolerable, any of them would be much worse.

hmm, reminds me of here in the UK, I'ts almost certain that the contenders will all be hated by me.



Mr Khan on 11 July 2010

The nation would need to either have a major terrorist attack (and one that's clearly branded as Obama's fault, and not one he can capitalize on like Bush did with 9/11), or a further (noticeable) economic collapse, or the Democratic party would need to fracture

 

These are the only ways Obama can lose. The list of defeated US presidential incumbents is a short one, and always entails either a fluke shift in the landscape (Taft, HW Bush), a horrible policy foul-up (Adams, Cleveland, Harrison, Ford), or some major national disaster (Van Buren, Carter, Hoover)



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

mrstickball on 11 July 2010

I have faith that, somehow, somewhere, they may elect a dark horse.

Look at Chris Christie. He embodies the kind of leadership the republicans need....Despite the fact that he's brushed off a presidential run in 2012.

I will vote for, and promote, Ron Paul and Gary Johnson to my local Republican executive council. We need a good leader...Not the trash we've had for the past ~20 years.

*hopefully* this wave of anti-incubency continues for, oh, another 30 years, and we kick out all the liars and theieves from Washington, and become America again.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.