How to Renounce America and Still Be Called a Patriot

National Review ^ | 07/17/2014 | Ron Fournier

[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."

[TigersEye]

Darned right! It's the corrupt and the communist who have
renounced America by their words and actions. I reject them.

[NFHale]

I guess the way I see it is this - if it’s so damned bad that someone feels they have to “renounce” it, then maybe they should just GTFO and see if they can find something better.

Gets REALLY tiresome listening/seeing people complain about the Country. It ISN’T “the Country”. It’s a group of subversive morons currently running things at all levels and their gimmedat voters.

[bobby.223]

You are dead on the money NF, as always. Yep, anyone who wants to renounce it can leave for other parts as fast as their little feet will take ‘em. They should just get the hell out and take their defeatist, sniveling attitudes with ‘em.

[ravenwolf]

Support America first.

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The majority of the American people chooses the route they want to go, they have chose to tax all of the high income earners to death and regulate every one into poverty.

The Government they have chose are promoting everything that happens to be an abomination to God and even nature.

I will let some one else support those things, if they get back to the Nation under God attitude then they will have my support.

[wku man]

American expats are the moral equivalents of the illegal scumbag aliens invading our nation. Rather than staying and fighting for their homes, they're turning chicken a** and deserting, leaving the messes they helped create for someone else to clean up. Rather than doing their duty as Americans who have inherited the great Republic left to them by those who refused to turn their backs on their duty, they put more value on their own perceived safety, comfort and ability to drink Mai-Tais on the beach.

OTOH, if they're too cowardly to stay and fight, I say good bye and good riddance. They'd just get in the way. Choose wisely the nations you run away to, expats...'cause that's going to be your family's home for a few generations at least. Once the heavy work's been done to save our Republic, if you weren't here to bleed with us, you won't be welcome back.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[wku man]

If you're too cowardly to stay and fight for this once and future great Republic, then don't let the door hit you on your cowardly a** on the way out. Anyone who deserts his or her nation just when they're needed most is the functional and moral equivalent of the illegal scumbag aliens invading our Republic as we speak. Run away, cowards...just don't come back when the smoke clears.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[NFHale]

“...I say good bye and good riddance....”

“We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

Ol’ Sam Adams said it best...

[TigersEye]

That is exactly right. It’s not like there is a dearth of socialist and communist countries in the world. Or dictatorships if that’s what they pine for.