>I guess it's a good thing that's easy for them, then!

I fail to see how you drew that conclusion - it was not what I said.

If you consider paying $2K to avoid doing paperwork that gains you very little "easy", I would like to be your friend.

I'm aware that it's not what you said, this song ain't about you homie. (The rhetorical) you has a choice; fill out the paperwork you knew you were going to have to fill out (!), or renounce citizenship. If you make enough that this is a hardship, you can afford to pay someone to fix it for you. If not, renouncing (what I was talking about) is easy and cheap.

>If you make enough that this is a hardship, you can afford to pay someone to fix it for you. If not, renouncing (what I was talking about) is easy and cheap.

Your statement has within it an assumption that it is not a hardship for low income earners.

I would like to congratulate you. For a while now I've wondered at the value of engaging in online debate, and you've finally convinced me to apply this rule:

"Don't engage much with someone who can be enlightened with 30-60 minutes of searching the Internet, unless there is an audience."

Summary: Life is too short.

You have come off as quite sure of your stance, and I do not get any signal from you that you'd like to be informed otherwise. The submission is old enough that I do not think there is any audience left. I do not see any merit in engaging further.

You might get more out of the conversation if you read more critically. You have repeatedly on this thread totally missed the point of the person you are replying to.

That lack of understanding dovetails nicely with your apparent goal of educating others about their mistakes.

Renouncing citizenship is not something anyone should do who does not already have citizenship of another country. It's not always trivial to acquire said citizenship.