Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to make students more aware of their Massachusetts citizenship, Samp says he once suggested distributing income tax forms with voter registration forms as a reminder that their responsibilities as taxpayers are as important as their rights as citizens...
...magazine titled "The New Refugees." These miserable souls are not fleeing conventional forms of oppression, such as the famine, dictatorship, torture and murder that have caused millions to seek haven in the U.S. through the generations. These are rich folks who, according to Forbes, are giving up their American citizenship -- the very status boat people by the thousands are risking their lives for even today -- because (according to one quoted legal expert) they "can't pay the federal tax rate and live in the style they want...
...trend" story, "The New Refugees" is a bit of a stretch. It turns out that only 306 Americans gave up their citizenship last year. Somewhat desperately, Forbes characterizes the number of expatriates as enough to "practically fill a Boeing 747." But out of 260 million citizens, the number is pretty small...
...like St. Kitts and Nevis or Turks and Caicos. The U.S. says, "Give me your tired, your poor." These tax havens say the opposite. They are places of Third World poverty where the well-to-do, in exchange for some investment, are invited to shed the normal obligations of citizenship in the developed world...
While millions of people around the world dream of United States passports (and all the advantages that this document affords), an elite group of Americans have studied the political and economic landscape and decided in the most forceful way that U.S. citizenship is just too expensive...