Good For Eduardo Saverin

The co-founder of Facebook is renouncing his U.S. citizenship and taking his fortune with him to greener pastures.  While many are attempting to shame him, they should feel ashamed of themselves for alienating him and others like him.  America now punishes excellence and rewards mediocrity in countless ways; the ponderous weight of taxes, spending, and hyper-regulation has choked off what once made America a shining city on a hill.  The paper barriers in our Constitution already have been shredded, so fight or flight are the only options left.  Eduardo chose the peaceful option, and it makes no difference whether his motives are merely pecuniary.  As the great jurist Learned Hand once observed: 

Anyone may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes.

Thieving imps in the Senate are proposing an "Ex-Patriot Act" to penalize such flight, forgetting that love of government is entirely distinct from (and hostile to) love of country.  A truly great country attracts people; only a diminished and degraded country punishes people for leaving.  Congratulations, America.  You are linking arms with the former East Germany.  

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While Eduardo Saverin is highly intelligent, Mark Zuckerberg is a blithering idiot.  He'll get an education soon enough.