What he meant was that he hadn’t given up on capitalism. Nor had he given up on the United States. He was willing to pay his share of what it cost to keep the country running. But others he knew were not willing. They decamped to tax havens. It was a stark illustration of the threat that globalization posed to the very idea of national identity. It’s not just factories that move abroad these days; U.S. corporations move their headquarters to countries with more favorable tax laws. And increasingly, wealthy Americans themselves shop around for citizenship in other countries. That was part of
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