Maybe controversial opinion, if you don't care enough to come back to the country to vote, you don't care enough about the country for your vote to be given a shit about.
Like, I get working abroad sometimes might not be fully optional in certain careers but that's just how it is.
We know of course that's just a front for soliciting actual foreigners to vote, but the front shouldn't even be considered valid.
You're still tax chattel when abroad and I don't think it's easy to just take a flight right back home for one day of the year to vote. If you want to strip that right from expats, then they shouldn't have to pay Federal taxes. If that doesn't matter, then I would say being camped in an American squatting zone on foreign soil shouldn't count either.
Why should they? They don't live in Federal territory, what are they paying for? The privilege of keeping their citizenship card? I doubt half of Congress is paying Israeli Taxes for theirs.
Maybe controversial opinion, if you don't care enough to come back to the country to vote, you don't care enough about the country for your vote to be given a shit about.
Like, I get working abroad sometimes might not be fully optional in certain careers but that's just how it is.
We know of course that's just a front for soliciting actual foreigners to vote, but the front shouldn't even be considered valid.
You're still tax chattel when abroad and I don't think it's easy to just take a flight right back home for one day of the year to vote. If you want to strip that right from expats, then they shouldn't have to pay Federal taxes. If that doesn't matter, then I would say being camped in an American squatting zone on foreign soil shouldn't count either.
Why should they? They don't live in Federal territory, what are they paying for? The privilege of keeping their citizenship card? I doubt half of Congress is paying Israeli Taxes for theirs.