Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "Protect Your Freedom with Multiple Passports" video.

Unless you want to live in Japan and have your kids live there, its always best to have as many options as possible. More passports is better as long as they are strategically chosen.
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Just remember that if you were to ever live in Monaco, you'd be subject to paying full French taxes as both current and former French citizens are required by law to pay full tax to France if they live in Monaco.
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You're forgetting that you're nothing but an ATM to them.
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@thisisobviouslynotmyrealname That's because those people believe the lies and propaganda about the place. All "name brand" countries are not places to go. Many go, find out the hard way and then can't afford to leave. Australia is the same. Most believe all the lies about it being the "best place on earth" only to find out the exact opposite and then can't afford to leave.
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@nomadcapitalist Regarding the talk about citizenship based taxation, I would like to mention that its already very easy for any country to enforce it should they choose. All they have to do is to deactivate or cancel the passport of any of their citizens who haven't paid tax. Should a country wish to be more aggressive, they can issue any of the following INTERPOL notices: * Green Notice - Used for warnings and intelligence (generally govt to govt) * Purple Notice - Modus Operandi. Used for gaining information of the modus operandi of a person or to carry out the wishes of the issuing govt * Red Notice - Wanted Persons. Used to have people arrested and extradited for prosecution as the result of criminal activity (incl. not paying taxes) On top of this once CBDC's are rolled out govts will simply garnish the money from those who don't pay. This is another reason to have money in various forms and around the world, so you're not solely dependent on one CBDC. Its better to be able to afford lawyers to fight things in court than to have all your money frozen and have no defence in court. Lastly, the one thing that people generally don't realize is that renouncing a citizenship is only you the individual asking to be released from their citizenship, even if the govt says "sure, goodbye", that government has the authority to declare that person, or anyone else in the world to be a citizen. This means if a country really wants citizenship based taxation, they can start by declaring everyone who renounced to be a citizen again and then they can pick people at random (could be tourists) and declare them to be citizens. The worst part about this is that the individual has no say in being made a citizen, its solely at the discretion of the govt. This is a tactic already commonly used by countries to get around extradition issues as its much harder for countries to refuse to extradite people who are citizens of the requesting country.
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Rubbish. 99% of countries won't cause you headaches unless you live there and get fully in the system, simply having the passport doesn't get you fully in the system. As someone born with multiple citizenships, the countries I'm a citizen of but haven't ever lived in are no headache. If I were to move to one of those countries, I'd have to get a tax number and then headaches would exist, currently having to only deal with one tax file is only one headache which I can legally leave when funds permit the cost of moving abroad. One does not require a tax number in order to have a passport, only a citizen number.
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A British Passport will make it easier to get into the former British parts of the Caribbean. Sure they have the British Overseas Territory Citizen (BOTC) system and different rules but its much easier with a British passport than it is without.
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That'd be a huge series of videos. Regarding your comments about treaties and EU countries, they could do citizenship based taxation for anyone who isn't living within the Schengen zone. Simply put, the way the Schengen zone works as far as taxation is that individuals pay tax where they have registered their residence, EU businesses pay where they are primarily located and/or where they have a significant presence (i.e. a local division). In the latter case its gets complicated as the divisions of the company generally only have to pay things related to pensions and local taxes (emissions, manufacturing, etc.). This is due to the Schengen Zone's Single Market Economy. Whilst citizenship based taxation within Schengen can't be done, it can be done to those who aren't living in the Schengen Zone. Existing tax treaties are few and far between and none of them prohibit citizenship based taxation.
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