Donald Trump won't save you. Nigel Farage won't save you. Pierre in Canada won't save you.
Even as a free market capitalist I can tell you the right-wing politicians aren't going to make
a dramatic change in your life or your business. This is why.
One of the reasons why I became the nomadic capitalist was I felt politically homeless
where I was from. I as a free market capitalist often held my nose and said all right I'll
look for the right-wing guy because I'm a business person that is my greatest identity. I want stuff
that's pro-business. I don't want to be paying more money this government that's wasting my tax dollars
but I never entirely agreed with the right-wing on certain personal freedoms on things like wars
and you know I realized voting for some libertarian he's going to get one percent
of the vote that's not the solution either and yet what I want to tell you is why
red states and why right-wing politicians aren't going to save you whether you're an American,
a Canadian, whether you're British or Australian. Not always every politician looking out for their
own interests including the ones that you might happen to agree with but where I think the right
wing falls as it becomes in certain countries more populist is they will be against options.
I never physically understood the idea of taking your nationality as an identity you
should be proud of what what did you do to earn that you just it was bestowed upon you by a matter
of chance and yet it is generally right-wing politicians who want you to recite or I'm from
the pledge of allegiance they want you to put your hand over your heart and sing the national anthem
and do this conditioning where you should work for the state. Now there are countries that are
bringing back or talking about bringing back conscription that is not always done by right
wing politicians to be fair but for me when I read comments like this I think to myself as
someone who wants options in my life is someone who doesn't think that a country makes you and you
should go where you're treated best I say to myself the right wing may not have my back
someone said I watched a video with Vivek Ramaswamy who ran for president Republican primary
and Ann Coulter her her thing has been immigration for 25 years and they were talking
about how they were against dual citizenship now both Ann Coulter and Vivek talked about illegal
immigration Ann Coulter has been talking about shutting down legal immigration for a long time
we may agree in some of that we may disagree on some of that I happen to think that the way the
world is going whether you like it or not is the most talented people are going to win and
the barriers to stop someone who's in Mexico or Malaysia or Montenegro who's more talented
than American that you know from that person getting a job those barriers are coming down
because no MediCampus has 100 people working here not a single one works in the United States
and that actually benefits me to not have them working in the United States I can go and we
find the people who are best for the job not because of their nationality but because they're
the best and I think that in some small way I've told you many times that is part of why
you're seeing Americans their wages aren't growing as fast a lot of western countries are
feeling that same pinch and so people like Vivek and Ann Coulter have some prominence
in some circles if only we stop letting in the immigrants well if you let the immigrants in at
least you can tax them at least the money comes into your coffers at least you're the one you
know that's getting the person who's going to do the next AI I understand not everybody who's
immigrating is you know part of AI you're working in Silicon Valley you're doing something
great or paying a lot of taxes but some of them are and the barriers of you know only
Americans should make good money and everyone else you know can suffer because we want to
have our three cars in the garage I think those days are over but here's why I make that comment
Vivek and Ann Coulter then had this discussion where they said how they're against dual citizenship
and I think they're conflating the two by saying that in the same way we need to keep
immigrants from coming in including they want to reduce legal immigrants and if you agree
with them fine I respect that but why should you as a citizen of the country have fewer
options because of their sort of jingoistic view of the world this commenter says many closed-minded
people in the far right would agree that there should not be dual citizenship and we've seen I
don't want to throw around terms but certainly there's some people who are anti-semitic about it
not to say that everything said about Israel is anti-semitic but there's been some anti-semitic
comments about dual citizenship and people use that as kind of their their fuel policies against
dual citizenship would most likely occur under a far right government yeah I mean if we look at
the governments around the world that opened up dual citizenship which has happened at a greater
extent than you might think over the last 25 years they might be center left I don't know if
they're far left they were probably more center left I mean Germany is opening up and not only
making it easier to naturalize but you might agree with or not but is making it easier to
become a dual citizen German I think it's a good thing the world has changed and is the
nature of gentlemen and should be the nature of countries to change with them and so this particular
person commented and said hey Ann Coulter and Vivek talking about why you shouldn't have dual
citizenship means you have fewer options now they may not want to raise your taxes but the
side product of you having fewer options is the government's gonna be more emboldened to do
whatever they want and in the United States you still have citizenship based taxation as I'm
sitting here which means as an American no matter where you live you're going to pay some tax or
at least you're going to be filing tax returns we help people legally reduce their tax if you go
to nomadcapitalist.com slash apply we can still help Americans save 80 90 even 100 percent give
or take of the amount of taxes you pay by moving overseas I don't think Vivek and Ann Coulter
like that idea I think even though we are all ostensibly free market capitalists and we
probably agree on a number of things we very vehemently I would guess disagree on that and we
certainly vehemently disagree on dual citizenship I don't think you need to be saying the Pledge
of Allegiance if you want to be proud of your identity and the culture in your community and
the people in your inner circle and the things that you've accomplished that's great uh let
me tell you this there are people all over the world because we have clients from all over
the world who are building multi-million-dollar businesses at a guy from a village in Egypt
moved to Cairo at 18 years old as a multi-million-dollar business he didn't have to move to the
United States to do that it's not the only place people become successful it's become easier to do
all over the world in fact the vast vast vast majority of my success came from after leaving
the US and you can say I went to the public school system there for most of my upbringing
well we paid for the public school system it should not be the only system you have to
pay for for life and I think that's where I would disagree with people on the right wing
I think they want to restrict your freedoms not saying they as if I'm some crazy left-wing
Bernie Sanders voting guy I've been very harsh on the new Labor government in the UK
on the previous government in New Zealand on you know Justin Trudeau in Canada
Biden and you know wanted to raise your taxes but you ought to be allowed to have dual
citizenship and it shouldn't be the government's job to tell you and the reality is the thing
of dual allegiances yeah becoming St. Lucian by going through a citizenship by investment program
I doubt there's going to be you know in the big US St. Lucia war breaks out you know you'll have
to choose which side you're on so that's one thing I'm concerned about one citizenship
can be your undoing even if you choose not to leave the country you're more likely to be
conscripted you have fewer options in that regard there are some countries that say if
you're a dual citizen you can avoid conscription or you can do something to avoid conscription
I don't think the government should be allowed to force you you know you abolish slavery a long
long time ago let's not bring it back to force people to join and take up arms trade wars against
your business one of the things I've talked about if there are going to be more tariffs
what trade wars are out there I talked about some of the sanctions whether they're good or bad
I don't think they help the US I don't think they help us businesses I think they're a desperate
laugh last act of a dying empire and that's eventually going to hurt your business if
you only have one citizenship I guess you're going to go down with the ship when more
countries in bricks or whatever their alliance get together and say yeah we don't really want
to work with American companies we work with these plenty of companies that we have and every
time the US sanctions one of our countries yeah oh yeah chip we can't get chips all right
we'll start making our own chips okay problem solved I think that's going to hurt you eventually
and I think that this right wing concept of American exceptionalism sure there are things
about the so-called American experiment that are good I don't know how many of them exist today
so let's not as I talked about it nomad capitalist life let's not live in nostalgia right I worked
in the radio business for some time in my industry and I talked about how there were these once
great radio stations WCBS and KGO and others that have now been reduced to a utter tiny
fragment of a shell of themselves I didn't stick around in the radio business because it was over
I made money well I could and I exited stage right and I think that's where the US is so
sure is there some great history great in relationships we've all had friendships we've
all had love relationships there was a great history you can't look back on the great history
when there's a current big problem you have to deal with the big problem in the current
and so you know quite frankly I just think that you know it's going to be the right wing
who talks more about rah rah rah American exceptionalism and I think that American
exceptionalism talk causes people to overlook by poo-pooing every other country oh brazil what
do you know we're losing to brazil even people on the left quite frankly who you know the bill
mar types who are a little more sympathetic to the right wing now they're like how are we losing
to brazil brazil like like this attitude only your country does great things you're right
I mean whether you like them or not look at what shine has done look at what a lot of
countries look at what asia is a continent all the different countries there look at
so many countries have done the game has changed that's why trump was elected in the first place
because people realized hey we're not running the show in its entirety anymore and I think clinging
on to American exceptionalism and saying oh you know how could anybody be better than us
we'll be your downfall I think a sane understanding that I've gotten my traveling to over a hundred
countries and living in a number of them and and spending my entire life now outside the
United States I realize what's actually going on you know in the global economy more than I
would if I had stayed sitting in the United States I see the actual situation and the US doesn't
yeah powerful country no doubt not as powerful as it used to be and that will eventually trickle
down to hurt you and if you don't have another citizenship and if you don't have options uh it
you know may not be your entire undoing but it will hurt you in some way and so you know
there are even people saying well that's great if you're you know if you're just if you're
not on board everything right wing then that's great you just pack your bags of leaf well I did
already thank you and I handed back my passport to in the ultimate act of blasphemy uh if you're
watching this far and you're watching nomad capitalists right we go where you're treated best
that's the five magic words here if your knee jerk reaction not not not just think about
it for a minute but just if the knee jerk reaction is oh this guy's anti right
well he's a jerk then you're probably not ready for what we're talking about
because the piece that I've gotten of all my years being out of the US is I don't have
the knee jerk reactions anymore I don't if someone wants to pick on the United States about something
I don't get insulted like that's my identity and so you know one of the things that we created
to help people kind of get into the flow was our annual event nomad capitalist live where
you come and you hang out with about 800 people we've got speakers from all around the world
you know this past year it was Tony Fernandez CEO of air asia paid 26 cents to buy air asia
from the Malaysian government turned into a big big big company one of the wealthiest guys in Malaysia
amazingly down to earth guy we had drinks with him in the VIP room afterwards but he told his story
to the audience of how the Malaysian dream is possible and I'd love for you to be exposed
to entrepreneurs from around the world not just on stage but in the audience
the reason we have the event again this year in Kuala Lumpur where I've lived part time
for the last decade is I want you to see that outside of the right-wing bastion of your country
you can still be free you can still be treated well you can pay a lot less in taxes
you can have a lot of the good stuff I think in many of the good ways Malaysia is the United
States of Asia but not so much in the bad ways I would evaluate that what's the knee
jerk reaction all this guy's saying we shouldn't say the Pledge of Allegiance
if your goal is to stay in Hattiesburg Mississippi then you know you don't need this
but if your goal is to make sure that you and your children your grandchildren have options the U.S.