Sanders will increase total fedreal taxes with 25 % to pay for his health plan and free college.

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79. That was my impression as well.

Bureaucrats will be bureaucrats. Unfortunately, here they are all-powerful and can never be fired. They only heed a higher authority when forced to by the courts, which it appears is where I'm headed. There is another possibility I'm looking into, according to KPMG, USA. A lawyer can force a conference between tax authorities of the two countries in cases of double taxation. It is called "competent authority." That is where they are forced to decide who gets what and not to doubly tax an individual. I'm looking for someone here who knows what that is and can invoke it. Some lawyers here (I assume, like everywhere) like running up billable hours more than they like helping their clients, and I have to find one who gives priority to the task at hand. It's a crappy situation, but I refuse to let myself get robbed of my salary and retirement fund because some bureaucrat is too lazy to read the fine print of a treaty to which his country is a signatory.