I think that if the candidates can’t get a majority of the population to vote for them (not just a majority of the voters), the office should remain vacant.
1 million dollars seems exceptionally cheap for a US resident visa with no strings attached.
In Canada some provinces have a similar process where you can run a business for a year and apply for permanent residency. In my city there were a bunch of weird little, clearly unprofitable franchises - bubble tea was one for a long time - where the owner was basically running it at a loss to buy citizenship.
It seemed to require a little more commitment to the community and effort than just handing over a big bag of cash. They've discontinued it in Ontario now, which has probably contributed to the glut of unoccupied commercial real estate.
Calling it a “gift” somehow manages to add an extra level of ick in my mind.
On the front a picture of Trump.
On the back pictures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln weeping in despair at the sight of Neu Amerika.
On the other hand, it's not out of line with programs in other countries (ex. NZ's golden visa program)
Jobs are created by economic demand, which rich people generate a lot of. So we get this either way.
A lot more people around the world can then afford to send their kids or pay off their gold cards across a 10-15 year timeframe.
*Obviously this depends on the income potential that is unlocked by having access to the U.S. workforce.
Well, nobody sane, anyway.
> Something like 0.5-1% of households in Europe have >$1M in investable/liquid assets.
You say this like it's a bad thing. I welcome immigration from rich Europeans.
You're not going to get European immigration via this scheme, that's for sure.
The only people who are likely to pay are people who are exceptionally wealthy and exceptionally highly motivated to get out of wherever they currently reside. Fraudsters who won't be extradited, mostly.
Anyone who can drop a million on permanent residence is most likely going to be significantly net positive for the economy.
Genuinely ignorant here, but historically speaking, is it normal for the president to bad-mouth the previous administration so openly and often? Especially in writing like this.
As I recall, other Presidents might decry Congress etc. but would almost never out-and-out criticize the direct previous official actions taken by the office of the Presidency.
Huh? Can you offer a single example of this pre-Trump?
There is no advantage to doing this unless you are a vindictive, angry, petty PoS.
The important thing to keep in mind is that it is all fiction and it is ONLY Trump saying these things. It is important to let authoritarian ideas die on the vine rather than endlessly debate the strawmen and keep them alive, IMO.
The characters in the whack pack seem the use Andrew Jackson as a model. He was similarly tasteful and also a disaster.
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/orders/
Also unprecedented is the use of Executive Orders to govern, as opposed to legislating through Congress, but that is not an entirely Trumpist thing, as Congress has been (take your pick) failing to govern/applying checks and balances for 20+ years now and across multiple administrations.
Didn't work because they'd just rotate and forge sales of buildings between networks of friends to acquire the visa and then citizenship.
This method benefits that country at the price of a million per person. Leftists will be quick to criticize while turning a blind eye at hundred thousands of illegal immigrants flooding their borders under pretext of a "better life".
Please downvote my comment as much as you please, I won't yield to leftazis which are now even officially considered a terrorist organization since this year (finally).
The related “Platinum Card” on the other hand makes me absolutely livid. It means that for $5 million, there’s a status available that is arguably better than US citizenship, granting 270 days of presence in the U.S., and exemption from US taxation. I am a U.S. citizen who spends <30 days per year in the U.S., and I can’t even open an ISA in the UK where I live due to the US’s global tax rules, let alone anything more complex. To have citizenship based taxation and then grant a special status to foreign wealthy individuals is a slap in the face of decency.
270 days in the U.S. is also long enough to become tax non-resident in whatever country you’re spending the other 90 days in, making it likely that you’d be tax resident nowhere.
A million bucks? Should have made it a billion.
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