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In reply to the discussion: Single payer advocate gives up and moves to New Zealand [View all]EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)58. More expats gave up citizenship
and green card holders turned them in last year than any other time in history.
Many cited the complicated and unfair tax code as the reason why.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/us-usa-citizen-renounce-idUSBRE83F0UF20120416
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You realize that those who can do so are predominantly the upper-middle
coalition_unwilling
Apr 2012
#31
Hmm, Daniel537 only joined DU 9 April 2012 and yet feels comfortable deriding people as
peacebird
Apr 2012
#53
"Surely they can sell their summer home if need be" seems to be the reaction. nt
Snake Alchemist
Apr 2012
#50
Good luck to her. Maybe if we keep losing doctors to other countries our own government
southernyankeebelle
Apr 2012
#8
this kind of an exodus can be avoided if the left would get more serious about challenging talk radi
certainot
Apr 2012
#13
he's point man for 1000 coordinated stations, creating made-to-order constituencies and alternate
certainot
Apr 2012
#75
Right Wing Talk Radio is a Huge Problem For Us, But What Can We Do About It?
AndyTiedye
Apr 2012
#43
RW radio monopoly can't survive without university sports, and those unis should be ashamed
certainot
Apr 2012
#74
+1000... Anyone who questions the power of a broadcast platform to disseminate
shcrane71
Apr 2012
#60
She's lucky she has a profession that can "move" easily. If she were a hairdresser or clerk
SoCalDem
Apr 2012
#21
I don't know if it has changed, but my wife and I looked into relocating 15 years ago
Dragonfli
Apr 2012
#23
The sort of attitude displayed in this thread is why the Right is able to label us as Anti-American.
Mr.Turnip
Apr 2012
#29
The U.S. IS a shithole. 50 million Americans currently receiving food stamps. 44 million
coalition_unwilling
Apr 2012
#32
Amen. Plus...we're up to our asses in debt...so far, in fact, we're NEVER going to get out. Period.
BlueJazz
Apr 2012
#48
And see that's why someone like you will never win an election in any major capacity.
Mr.Turnip
Apr 2012
#35
America is a fairly highly-developed Western Nation with a currently flawed Economic system.
Mr.Turnip
Apr 2012
#51
"It's by no measure the worst place in the world" -- aka damning it with faint praise. I guess you
coalition_unwilling
Apr 2012
#54
Why do you care what the 'Right thinks'?? Surely if you are a Democrat you know that the Right
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#63
I was just thinking that the US will have a brain drain first as the most educated
shcrane71
Apr 2012
#61
It's all of our loss that such a dedicated professional has chosen to leave
suffragette
Apr 2012
#68