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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (2256)	4/6/1999 9:29:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<The last figures I saw for US citizens giving up their US citizenship was north of 250,000 per year. the exodus is so bad that Bill Clinton issued an "executive order" to keep anyone from leaving the US without paying a huge exit tax in order to discourage them from leaving.>> If these are the figures that I believe they are, the statement backs up my insinuation that socialist economies are counter productive. That tax penalty (that I believe you are referring to) was instated to prevent US citizens from expatriating their wealth to avoid taxation. The more bloated the Federal government gets, and the more intrusive it becomes, the more you will see this sort of behavior. Just as the leading medical theorists and practicians fled British nationalization of health care, so will American productive brains and capital flee the nationalization of wealth.