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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
Not all patroits are indeed patroits..
-OR- americans,,,,,, americans..
-OR- intelligent.... intelligent..
are we moving into an era of the “survival of the fitest?”
There are Americans.... and then there are Liberals.
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?
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..
Maybe she is smarter than the old man???
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 !!
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.
Dog Soldiers! What say the pack??
See my post at #4.
Woof!
I love America, but I renounce Amerika.
Refer to my post at #4.
Americans DON’T renounce America.
We may renounce those running the government - but the government is NOT America.
Doesn’t matter in my opinion.
Republicans. Democrats. If a company is selling out ... then to heck with them.
Support America first.
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