The whole world's watching--fallout in the German press was quick

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56. It's awful what has happened in Texas sonce Ann Richards.

I suspect what Americans Abroad needs is a Senator - any Senator - who will take the taxation issue as a pet project and stay with it -as Sheldon Wnitehouse (D-RI) is doing with Spureme Court ethics and reform, or Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been doing for years with consumer protection, or, for a while, Jeff Merkley (D-OR) was doing with climate change I don't know what happened to that. If I knew all the Senate Committees I might be smart enough to recommend a name (Whitehouse is the chair of Judiciary, for instance), but I don't. If nothing else, these Senators do serve to keep the issue before the public. And that results in petitions and lotsof letters to all in Congress and gets the attention of at least some of them.

You are absolutely right, the system is unfair, and Americans do not like unfairness (even though some Americans have thoroughly distorted ideas of what constitutes unfairness, they don't like it either.) And being abroad makes it difficult for you to tap into grass roots inside the country.