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The Top 7 Reasons Why You Need a Second Passport Today, by Nick Giambruno

You don’t have to be a billionaire to benefit from a second passport. A second passport is a simple, but quite effective, way to increase one’s options and freedom of action. From Nick Giambruno at internationalman.com:

Before World War I, you didn’t need a passport for international travel.

People simply went wherever they wanted. In many cases, they didn’t need permission from any government agency.

Obviously, that’s not how it works today.

Today, governments use passports to document and control their citizens. In my view, the world would be better off without them.

Unfortunately, passports are not going away. You will continue to need one to travel, so you might as well have more than one.

Among other things, having a second passport allows you to invest, bank, travel, live and do business in places you wouldn’t otherwise be able to.

Further, a second passport prevents the government from locking you in. Without one, the government in your home country can effectively place you under house arrest by canceling your passport for whatever reason it wants.

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First, Secure the Borders, by Jeff Thomas

Keep in mind that anything that can keep people from entering the US can also keep people from leaving the US. From Jeff Thomas at internationalman.com:

As Ludwig von Mises correctly stated, in a free state, no one is forced to remain within the state. Anyone who seeks to emigrate is free to do so. This is, in fact, one of the primary tenets of liberty – if you don’t like it, you can leave.

And so, it follows that, if the right to exit is curtailed in any way, the state has ceased to be free.

There are those, including myself, who feel that, once this line has been crossed by a state, it’s time to skedaddle. Don’t wait for conditions to “get better.” They won’t. History shows us that, in every case where migration has become curtailed, the state never reverses to a more open policy; in fact, it becomes decidedly more restrictive.

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