Eduardo Saverin tells the Times his decision to renounce his US citizenship had nothing to do with US taxes. “This had nothing to do with taxes. I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.”

It sounds like consular officials in Singapore would have made very clear to Eduardo Saverin that he faced being barred for life from the USA. Read More

Over recent days we’ve been following the story of Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook, now residing in Singapore, who has renounced his citizenship to avoid the big time tax bill that would have come with the Facebook IPO windfall. But will Saverin ever be able to set in the US again? Read More

In today’s Crosstabs, TPM Poll Editor Kyle Leighton looks at the key demographic groups Obama and Romney are fighting over for November.

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Three polls out in the last few days show a very consistent picture. Gov. Scott Walker has a small but solid lead over Democrat Tom Barrett in the Wisconsin recall election. The TPM Poll Average has it at Walker 50.5% to Barrett 44.2%.

The National Coalition for Men has endorsed the House GOP’s version of the Violence Against Women Act.

Speaker Boehner’s insistence that no increase in the debt limit is possible without corresponding dollar-for-dollar budget reductions does not apply to the House GOP’s own Ryan budget.

JP Morgan can do all the proprietary trading it wants, Paul Volcker tells Bill Moyers — it just has to surrender its banking license.

Besides non-stop coverage of politics, one of my biggest interests with TPM over the years has been books — reviewing them, discussing them with readers and so forth. And we’re planning a new section of the site to do that in a more compelling and on-going way. But for today, I have a more specific question. Read More

The House votes today on the Violence Against Women Act, with Republicans introducing amendments to tone down their version and escape some of the heat they’re getting and Democrats saying, not good enough.