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How to Renounce America and Still Be Called a Patriot
National Review ^ | 07/17/2014 | Ron Fournier

Posted on 07/17/2014 9:38:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

This story is about a gilded class of people and corporations enriched by the new American economy while the rest of its citizens pay the tab. The protagonists could be any number of institutional elites, but this column happens to be about a Democratic senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin, and his daughter, Heather Bresch, the chief executive of Mylan, a giant maker of generic drugs based outside Pittsburgh.

Her company's profits come largely from Medicaid and Medicare, which means her nest is feathered by U.S. taxpayers. On Monday, Bresch announced that Mylan will renounce its United States citizenship and instead become incorporated in the Netherlands – leaving this country, in part, to pay less in taxes.

This is the sort of story that makes blood boil in populists – voters from the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party to libertarians who follow Rand Paul and including tea party conservatives. These disillusioned souls, growing in numbers, hate hypocrites who condemn the U.S. political system while gaming it.

Populists can't be happy with how this story was told by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times. Under the headline "Reluctantly, Patriot Flees Homeland for Greener Tax Pastures," Sorkin cast Bresch as a helpless victim of a system that has made her wealthy and her father powerful.

"Heather Bresch grew up around politics. Her father is Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia and a former governor. She has heard him say repeatedly, "We live in the greatest country on Earth," as he did in countless political advertisements. And it appeared to rub off on her: Ms. Bresch was named a "Patriot of the Year" in 2011 by Esquire magazine for helping to push through the F.D.A. Safety Innovation Act."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: business; exodus; joemanchin; patriotism
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1 posted on 07/17/2014 9:38:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Not all patroits are indeed patroits..
-OR- americans,,,,,, americans..
-OR- intelligent.... intelligent..


2 posted on 07/17/2014 9:42:38 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: SeekAndFind

are we moving into an era of the “survival of the fitest?”


3 posted on 07/17/2014 9:43:12 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are Americans.... and then there are Liberals.


4 posted on 07/17/2014 9:46:49 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Heather Bresch apparently received a phony MBA from West Virginia University in 2007 when her daddy was the governor.
5 posted on 07/17/2014 9:53:41 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, I suppose if a republican was moving its company to another country because the tax rates and regulations on top of regulations here are an abomination then I would be all for it.

But a dam democrat?


6 posted on 07/17/2014 9:53:56 AM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: NFHale

There moving because the taxes are to high here…only fools pay high taxes forever….I left NYS because of sky high property taxes in 1981..


7 posted on 07/17/2014 9:55:27 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Maybe she is smarter than the old man???


8 posted on 07/17/2014 9:59:38 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: SeekAndFind

Which citizens? The ones getting all the government goodies and paying ZERO,NADA NONE,of the income tax burden!
This guy is an ass,he is a left wing ass who preaches government should pay for EVERYTHING,but the government produces NOTHING but misery.
The only thing I have against this woman is,her father is a member of the party responsible for this mess,she I’d only doing what any smart business would do,if she rails against the bastards that have destroyed this country,then I am with her!


9 posted on 07/17/2014 9:59:39 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: SeekAndFind

When the taxes starts to hurt, you vote with your feet. The USA has one of the most corporate-unfriendly tax systems in the world.


10 posted on 07/17/2014 10:17:02 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Little Ray
The USA has one of the most corporate-unfriendly tax systems in the world.

It also has a very oppressive unitary tax system for individuals, where it wants to track and tax the income of all US citizens, and have detailed information on their offshore assets. Not the "land of the free" anymore... unless you're an illegal or a welfare client.

11 posted on 07/17/2014 10:30:53 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

Ms Bresch is a democrat. She’s the daughter of a democrat U.S. Senator.

She’s the president of a big company that “needs” to relocate in order to save money. She’s doing it for the interests of the company.

However, if she were not involved with the company at all, she would be one of the millions of democrats deploring the move to a much better environment by Mylan.


12 posted on 07/17/2014 10:40:51 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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RE: Heather Bresch apparently received a phony MBA from West Virginia University in 2007 when her daddy was the governor.

It’s OK, you can be a phony native American Indian and still be a Harvard Professor and yes, a SENATOR and heck, even a potential Presidential candidate !!


13 posted on 07/17/2014 10:48:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: elpadre
"are we moving into an era of the “survival of the fitest?”"

The question behind that question might be, "Who are really the fittest?" For most, that one will only be answered during the test, and for most, the answer will be a surprise.


14 posted on 07/17/2014 10:51:19 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Absolutely. The Fair Tax would fix this, but why would the Feds give up the power of the IRS.
They are making the US into the land of Fee and home of the Hand-out.


15 posted on 07/17/2014 10:52:26 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: SeekAndFind; wku man; NFHale; DuncanWaring; Marcella; Windflier; AllAmericanGirl44; bobby.223; ...

Dog Soldiers! What say the pack??


16 posted on 07/17/2014 11:33:16 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

See my post at #4.

Woof!


17 posted on 07/17/2014 5:48:41 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I love America, but I renounce Amerika.


18 posted on 07/17/2014 5:50:19 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Kartographer; wku man; Windflier; Marcella; Old Sarge; DuncanWaring; AllAmericanGirl44; ...

Refer to my post at #4.

Americans DON’T renounce America.

We may renounce those running the government - but the government is NOT America.


19 posted on 07/17/2014 5:51:10 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: ravenwolf

Doesn’t matter in my opinion.

Republicans. Democrats. If a company is selling out ... then to heck with them.

Support America first.


20 posted on 07/17/2014 5:54:06 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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