Canada is far from socialist. In fact, they are arguably more free market than the US. They have one major socialized industry and about 10,000 free market driven ones.

No. That’s socialism. Communism is where the income generated through government owned industry is evenly distributed to all people, not just the employees of said industries.

All three of those countries have a capitalist economic systems. The government does not run the major industry. Just because they have social program, it doesn’t make them socialist. Sweden is particularly capitalist.

North Korea has a good sized navy. Over 50 submarines, many of which are advanced by today’s standards. They have destroyers and other warships as well.

South Korea is a Christian dominant nation in case you skipped East Asian geography.

Only about 15% of tests have failed and the recent failures are tests of newly developed fuels, not conventional rockets.They have put multiple rockets into space. They have satellites in orbit.

They’ve already had about 50 successful launches. We only hear about the failures because—US media. The recent failures are tests of different solid fuels as well as sub based missiles. They have conventional medium and long range missiles that work. Hell, NoK has two satellites in space and that’s always been the…

That’s all any third row in an SUV is used for. People who seriously need a vehicle to seat 8 get a van.

Durango is larger than the Tahoe in wheel base and exterior dimensions. However, it has the smallest front seat in class. It’s cockpit is smaller than the RAV4, Highlander, and Ford Escape. Even sub compact SUVs offer more driver space. It’s not competitive with th CUV class or the sub compacts in terms of driver leg…

The embassy doesn’t provide much of a service. They don’t exist to support expats, that’s a byproduct of thier existence. The embassy would be there whether there was a single US citizen in country or not. What benefits does the expat retain? They aren’t prot cited by US law, they aren’t protected by the US military,…

But that’s only on people who lived overseas for less than 24 months. Once you cross 2 years, you stop filing US tax altogether. So a US citizen making the Canadian median income of $52,000 a year and already paying 32% in Canadian taxes has about $35k in disposable income. How much of that do you want to take for the…

You’re insane. You want US citizens living abroad to pay both the host nation tax and the US taxes. A roughly 80% tax on income. Genius.

But most don’t do these things. Most have never been to the embassy in their resident country and most do not fall under the direct protection of the US Armed Forces (except in the abstract, US global police concept).

No, I’m not a dog or child.

I think GM clearly got their market research right. Sales are an indication of appeal which is why they matter. They tell you whether things like leg room or reliability are an issue.

Why? These people aren’t using any of the services the government provides. The exist at no cost to the rest of us and are paying taxes in the nation in which the reside.

But we don’t tax income accrued overseas as it is (as long as you are out of the country more than 24 months.

The seat was stolen when they murdered Scalia. Not when the repubes delayed confirmation.

How would you enforce that? If the renounce thier citizenship, the US has no legal standing. You gonna send the IRS to Thailand to root out expats?

There are plent of places as nice or nicer than the US to reside if the US taxes make it uneconomical. Costs Rica, Ireland, Belize, Uruguay, Canada, Switzerland all have a great standard of living and no real death tax.