npub1n7…a9qu4 on Nostr: You get fired. I'm dealing with the same issue. Being a US citizen means you're a ...

You get fired. I'm dealing with the same issue. Being a US citizen means you're a citizen under the authority of Congress. You are a "person". Being a state citizen, aka a US national, means you're a citizen under the authority of the Constitution. Most employers, most lawyers, most people in general do not know there is a difference. So you tell them you renounced your citizenship to become a state citizen, they call you a sovereign citizen, not really knowing what that means either, and in most cases they (totally guessing here, just inferring the effect of the incentives) let you go because instead of learning the law and upending payroll, out of fear of reprimand from the IRS, they'd rather just fire you. This is wildly more accessible by being self employed.

When the civil war ended, none of the states wanted to give the freed slaves citizenship because that meant right to bear arms, to privacy, to equal protection and rights as whites. So they created the 14th amendment which created a new class of citizenship: US citizens. The problem followed for the next 150 years to today where nobody knew the difference. Roger B Taney discussed this ad nauseum as a Justice of the Supreme Court. He kept telling white plaintiffs that the 14th amendment did not apply to them because they weren't freed slaves. They were state citizens. People just could not understand the distinction. So the distinction was lost.

Now we have naturalization, where whether your parents understood this or not, all through public school you're asked to fill out forms, where everyone reflexively checks "I am a US citizen" not knowing what they're saying is that they're a citizen of Washington DC.

Straight from Cornell law: The term “naturalization” means the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth, by any means whatsoever.

8 USC § 1101(a)(23)

Whether you were born a state citizen or not, the second you checked that box, you legally became a US citizen, thus subject to federal income tax, withholding on your pay stubs, social security, Medicaid, all the whistles and bells.

The point of my initial post is that adding territories, not states, to the American frontier means whether people realize what's happening or not, they'll be subject to federal income tax, giving DC a means to pay the federal debt.

Which they still won't do 🤣