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Re:French Entrepreneurs Revolt by fusiongyro on Monday October 08, 2012 @10:00PM (#4629576)
That's a myopic view of economics. How could it improve things to have the group with all the money leave, taking it with them?
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Re:French Entrepreneurs Revolt by ucee054 on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @06:35AM (#4630833)
They can be prevented from taking it with them.

Try renouncing US citizenship; you'll have to pay a big penalty to the IRS to do so...

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Re:French Entrepreneurs Revolt by fusiongyro on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @11:10AM (#4631918)
Yes, but people are starting to do it. People who get wealthy tend to care about their money a lot, and are very willing to do the math and see if the big penalty at departure is higher or lower than the sustained penalty of staying.
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