Cry me a river - leaches

Security Contractors do not LIVE in the countries they are in for decades or from birth....Please explain you short reply.

Some researchers. A lot of workers for international companies. Translators. Teachers. Athletes. Writers and other "talent"-based workers. Some are just economic refugees in, say, Canada.

The world is bigger than Iraq, Afghanistan, and a few other hot spots. I know a linguist in Taiwan that's hit by this. Not exactly a mercenary or security contractor. "I will slay your weak jers and those in weak position and cause them to fall!" (Sorry. Slavist humor.) I've known teachers who did stints in Egypt, S. Korea, Japan and none ever said they'd want to be hired locally again. They loved the countries, the students, their jobs. But taxes? Oy!

If they're contracting with the US State Dept. or DOD they're not paid locally. They're not resident workers, they'll just pay US income tax. It's the people that live abroad for a year or more that aren't paid by the US government in some form who get hit by this. The details have changed, but this is a problem that's been going on for decades.

and only tax the income of residents.

Especially the state department's system of foreign embassies.

because they can legally credit their foreign income tax against any US tax they calculate. The issue is that the whole filing process is an expensive and bureaucratic waste of time for everyone involved.

or have even gone to the USA...even for a vacation. Your reply is not clear.

It is just a money grab but the thing is they are not getting the real high money tax evaders.

This law was slipped into a jobs bill...This FATCA was never assessed or studied. Obama probably never knew what FATCA is until afterward, maybe he is not aware of it now. I always thought the way American laws are made is crazy. Things slipped in that have nothing to do with the law. Pork Politics..

I commend him for the ACA bill and woman's equal rights and other laws.
He is after all a human and not perfect We all wished him so much good will. Myself and my Canadian friends truly believed he would change the country for the better. He is fighting a plutocracy.. We still hope that he is not part of it.

Obama's not perfect, but this isn't his fault in any way, shape, or form.

Few political points to be gained in it, so he also hasn't pushed to have it changed. Not a big point--there are so many petty injustices around that you pick and choose what to fight. It's just easier and more profitable to pick and choose fights that get you something important than something like this.

I remember the halcyon early days when posting articles from the John Birch Society's official magazine would get you shunned, berated and cast into the Cursed Earth. Now people are agreeing with this shit?

Perhaps the OP'er just doesn't know.

I went to an Obama inaugeration party in 08.....
been a huge fan of MSNBC

and this is what DU has turned into? accusing me of being in the John Birch society...

You know you what you Yanks can Do? Canadians will not be wanting to sell you its clean water , many are revolting from the Harper turncoat. And you are accusing ME of being a John Bircher.

N o wonder people are leaving DU..