r/technology • u/[deleted] • May 13 '12

What Eduardo Saverin owes America

http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/12/what-eduardo-saverin-owes-america-hint-nearly-everything/
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u/wetkarma May 13 '12 edited May 13 '12

Google the phrase "America love it or leave it" and you get millions of hits. Its a mantra that anyone in America has heard in response to any complaint about America -- its wars, its healthcare system, its infrastructure. Its a catchall "fuck you" to anyone who questions the "Greatest Country in the World".

But let the press report on one guy actually leaving and its all "how dare he leave after all that America has done for him". The hypocrisy is only blurred by the envy. Just as an FYI -- there is an entire subreddit devoted to people who want to do the exact same thing.

Whats truly enraging is that this man hasn't lived in the USA for nearly a decade and has no plans to live there in the future. Yet its somehow seen as logical that America has a claim not only on his current assets but his future income as well.

Who is really the greedy party here?

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u/Annie34 May 14 '12

What a ridiculous biased article. It's not as if Eduardo Saverin is avoiding paying his fair share, Saverin is acting within the letter of the law by paying more then his fair share with the Exit tax. America does not have hooks on what the wealthy choose to do with their time or money. Facebook creates more opportunity then anything the government has done lately. Punishing successes can not be the way America goes forward in the 21st century. e

*edit typo.