Originally Posted by
Typhoonpilot
You really need to stop talking about this issue. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the world tax system. Only one or two other countries in the world tax their citizens on global income.
So let's make it 3. Only for the ME3 airline employees though. I have no problem with anyone else getting it.
The U.S. has the foreign earned income exclusion for Americans working overseas because they are not using the services that tax dollars are normally meant to pay for. That includes public schools, roads, police department, fire department, etc, etc, etc.
A huge portion of that is state and local tax anyway.
While a U.S. citizen gets a tax break they also must pay exorbitant amounts of money for their child's education should they wish to enroll them in a good school. Even at a company like Emirates that advertises tuition reimbursement the amount they give is not even half the cost of a good American school. So the Americans at Emirates and the other ME carriers who have kids are not getting near the "tax free" salary that you think they are.
Well then maybe ME3 should take some of their bling and pay their pilots more, especially if we help encourage it through changes to our tax code.