There are some interesting numbers below....at some point its gonna start looking like a “bank run” ...which is essentially what it is...
The Feds are desperately worried some of the 50% of the population they uses as cash cows to help them fund their delusions are catching on...and leaving....
“Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Superman’s lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That’s a record number since the Internal Revenue Service began publishing a list of those who renounced in 1998. It’s also almost eight times more than the number of citizens who renounced in 2008, and more than the total for 2007, 2008 and 2009 combined.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/us-usa-citizen-renounce-idUSBRE83F0UF20120416
Even more alarming....in 1997 the list was ONLY 90 people renouncing...so that year, 2011, it was TWENTY times greater that in 1997...
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1997-01-30/html/97-2283.htm
A lot of this is natural fall-out from dual citizenship and passing out American citizenship to everyone.
A foreigner can come here, do what they want to make money and then go home, if they made a ton of money then they may desire to dump the no longer useful or important American citizenship.
Some of it is just our modern day Americans raised and educated into nothing but a single minded focus on wealth and self gratification, with no connection to anything more.
I doubt that many of these guys spend their evenings discussing patriotism or Jesus.