Rabbi Jack Moline: I respectfully ask the Members of the House of Representatives to reject the tax on citizens who choose to renounce their United States citizenship. I have spent many years struggling with foreign governments on behalf of Jews wishing to leave oppressive societies for the freedom afforded by our country and others. I traveled to the Soviet Union in 1978 for the purposes of meeting Jews who wanted to emigrate. but were denied that opportunity on the basis of legal technicalities and. most onerously. excessive taxes placed on their request to emigrate. Their stories were heartbreaking. indeed. many members of this committee remember well their own advocacy on behalf of refuseniks. Outrageous exit taxes that a person has no way of generating the resources to pay have traditionally been a way of denying people the right to emigrate. Now. I have absolutely no opposition to and I fully support going after the 12 and 24 people that are manipulating this in a way that they renounce their citizenship. get the benefits. but then stay in the country and do their business.
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