• Venia Silente@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s called not paying taxes.

      Don’t the US have a strong “sovereign self-made man” movement that unacknowledges taxes and federal law enforcement among other things?

      • kool_newt@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Unless you’re worth tens of millions or more the U.S. government does not fuck around if you owe them. Wages will be garnished, if that’s not an option prosecution is.

    • aidan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They can leave(or could at the time), now you have to renounce citizenship.