> So you don't agree with how taxes work and think you could do better? I challenge you to find someone who DOESN'T think that.
If you can point to a country that has only one tax or a party that has that position I’d be much obliged.
> This is already the case. There are many services open to only US citizens, and others open only to citizens and lawful permanent residents.
The US has different classes of citizenship, with different rights?
>> Civic nationalism is incoherent unless people can be expelled from the community.
> In the US we refer to this as "jail".
Timeout is not the same thing as being told you’re no longer part of the family. US citizens can’t be deported. Plenty of states allow ex-convicts to vote.
> Many Protestant Christian denominations refer to this as "confirmation". I believe there is an equivalent concept in Catholicism; Bar/Bat mitzvah serves this purpose in Judaism.
The context in which I was saying this was membership in a national community. I am unaware of any country that demands citizens affirm a statement of shared values to partake in political life. The closest any country has is conscription for male citizens and it’s not that close.
> The US has different classes of citizenship, with different rights?
The US has citizens, many different classes of lawful residents, and unlawful residents, each group having different rights and different levels of access to government services.
If you can point to a country that has only one tax or a party that has that position I’d be much obliged.
> This is already the case. There are many services open to only US citizens, and others open only to citizens and lawful permanent residents.
The US has different classes of citizenship, with different rights?
>> Civic nationalism is incoherent unless people can be expelled from the community.
> In the US we refer to this as "jail".
Timeout is not the same thing as being told you’re no longer part of the family. US citizens can’t be deported. Plenty of states allow ex-convicts to vote.
> Many Protestant Christian denominations refer to this as "confirmation". I believe there is an equivalent concept in Catholicism; Bar/Bat mitzvah serves this purpose in Judaism.
The context in which I was saying this was membership in a national community. I am unaware of any country that demands citizens affirm a statement of shared values to partake in political life. The closest any country has is conscription for male citizens and it’s not that close.