Comments on: People Without a Country

By: camping

camping — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:29:39 +0000

I agree. Having spent 9 months living out of an RV I found it extremely difficult. The main problem I had is that if you stay in a state for more than 30 days you have to get a drivers licence in that state.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:37:30 +0000

As previously stated, Texas does not have an Income Tax. And property taxes are paid by the owner of the rented property whether that property is rented or not – so the previous statement regarding the “fairness” to landlord do not apply. RVer’s are a great help to the economy. I am a manager of an RV Park, & when our sites are empty, that is when we have problems.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:36:39 +0000

By: dearieme

dearieme — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:19:03 +0000

True, Charlie, and the clue lies in “overseas” – it really isn’t in any part of England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

By: Charlie B

Charlie B — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:23:06 +0000

Gibraltar is a British overseas territory.

By: John Galt

John Galt — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:12:18 +0000

In Texas, we don't have an income tax.

Government is paid for through a combination of sales taxes and property taxes (which, as a previous commenter noted, are rolled into rents if you don't own). Someone who has an RV and spends most of his time in other States pays neither.

In that case, I can understand why people might be shut out of local elections, though how this differs from voting absentee as a college student or military is beyond me.

By: hanmeng

hanmeng — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:08:32 +0000

This issue of the elderly homeless must be addressed by raising the taxes on the rich to pay for housing for these poor people. Michael Moore should make a movie!

By: dearieme

dearieme — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:46:22 +0000

The daftest election rule I’ve ever heard of was for the last round of European elections, in which Gibraltar was deemed to be part of the South West of England. So, why not deem your nomads to be residents of DC?

By: will

will — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:21:27 +0000

My wife and I are thinking about joining the group (RV nomads) when we retire (about 5-8 years) and it’s not about avoiding taxes but avoiding bad weather. Ohio can be cold in the winter

By: CT_Yankee

CT_Yankee — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:43:20 +0000

Strange. I think we already have a system in place to deal with this issue. When I was in the military and stationed outside my home state for a few years, I (along with several other people I worked with) voted by absentee ballot without difficulty. This included local elections. It was simply necessary to declare a "home of record" that was used for taxes, travel pay, voting, and anything else that normally wanted a physical address.

Getting the absentee ballot did require an application that an officer had to sign. I suspect the easiest way to establish a nomadic country wide residency is to list it on your passport. Local officials can't mess with the federal passport. This also prevents voter or tax fraud by claiming to be from more than one place, depending on the issue. I just pulled out my driver's license to vote, but I could have used my passport in a national election at any authorized voting center if I was 2,000 miles away from home that day.