It&#x27;s not about America per se - I would feel the same way about any country. I live and work in UK while being a Polish citizen. If Poland now asked me to pay income tax in Poland based off my income in UK, I would be very very upset - I already pay income tax in the UK, so paying it twice sounds absolutely ridiculous. On the most basic level - Poland has absolutely no &quot;right&quot; to any of that money. I would denounce my Polish citizenship over this if that was the case.
And US feels like they do have the right to the money of their citizens, even if they made it abroad. Every single person I spoke to about this said the exact same thing - the US tax system is stupid, and it&#x27;s the example of US behaving like it owns the world and its own citizens. Just because it only targets &quot;rich&quot; people doesn&#x27;t make it any less stupid.