Taxation Without Vaccination: Why Biden Doesn’t Really Mean Vaccines Are Available to ‘All Americans’
President Joe Biden declared in April that COVID-19 vaccinations are available to all American adults at no cost. But who the POTUS failed to include in his statement about “all Americans” are the nearly 9 million Americans (excluding military) living abroad, where the COVID-19 vaccine still isn’t available.
Taxpayers fund the U.S. government, including expats that pay tax on worldwide income regardless of where they live. Eritrea is the only other country to tax its citizens abroad on their worldwide income—at a flat 2 percent tax. American citizens must pay taxes in the States as they supposedly still receive the benefits of U.S. citizenship, but the vaccine rollout proves that’s a farce.
Expats pay taxes in exchange for support during an emergency—certainly a global pandemic counts as an...
