Re: 5G

badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> wrote:

badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> wrote:

 
I am an expat, living in Budapest, Hungary,

 
Why are you an ex-patriot and why did you choose Hungary?
 

Because my retirement income makes a more comfortable living here  then
over there. Plus I have some relatives here whom I used to visit every few
years and I could see the steady improvement of the country. Just the
opposite what I saw in the US. I miss though a few things here, like the
good neighborhood bars and the American health care system. They are still
better over there than here,
 
 

 
I assume you are now a Hungarian citizen. Do you receive government
benefits there? Can you vote? As an ex-patriot do you receive Social
Security or other US government benefits?
 

Oh boy, you sure are curious, but I’ll answer you. In Hungary citizenship
goes with ancestry, not by being born in Hungary. So yes, I am a dual
citizen and thus I can vote here. Because I did not work and paid taxes
here, I get no government benefits. I am enrolled in their government
health indurance system though, but I pay for it every month. I am entitled
to receive US Social  Security payments, based on how much they deducted
from me during my working years. And, of course, I still keep paying US
federal income taxes on all my income even if it was earned here. US is
kinda’ unique in this, because in most countries I know of, you do not have
you pay taxes on money you did not earn there. IRS is gready, I guess.