http://www.zerohedge.com/article/its-official-america-now-enforces-capital-controls#new
It's Official - America Now Enforces Capital Controls
Maybe I overstated it just a little bit. It is not actually a crime to leave the United States looking for political asylum in another country. It is only a crime if you want to take your possessions with you. Welcome to Barack Hussein Obama's new improved U.S.S.A. (United Socialist States of Amerika). Where nobody (except politicians) are allowed to have more than anyone else. Where it is now a crime, punishable by 30% of everything you own, if you wish to leave this country and take you wealth with you. Which may turn out to be a bargain, as if you decide to stay here where you are an enemy of the state, eventually all your wealth will be confiscated.
As part of his plan to make everyone equal, after Barack Hussein Obama has stolen all the wealth from anyone who has earned it, Barack Hussein Obama will make it a crime for anyone to be too good looking, too tall, too smart, too ...
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Oh, so the "Wealth tax" proposal that didn't make it onto the California ballot is now unnecessary, since it's become federal law!
ReplyDeleteCA wealth tax proposal, about halfway down:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/failed-to-qualify.htm
Furthermore, the money collected would have been mostly "allocated to purchasing the common stock of various weapons, petroleum, automotive, media and financial companies, as well as for other environmental protection-related purposes." One wonders what sort of special interest the Obamanation Capital Controls will be used to fund??
Forgot to mention...
ReplyDeleteIt was perfectly legal to leave the former Soviet Union. They didn't actually have any strict emigration restrictions.
But they DID have an exit tax amounting to a very wealthy person's total assets. If you couldn't pay the tax, you couldn't leave. That's also why formerly-wealthy Russian emigres usually arrived in the U.S. flat broke.