I like hearing about sociopaths that utilize the infrastructure provided by the U.S. but don't want to pay back. Contrast that to the evil poor that utilize the infrastructure, have nothing but are demonized for not paying.
This.
The US keeps taxing you after you leave. And for citizens, it is for life.
Now I'm wondering how much I've harmed my future mobility (should I choose to return to my birth country).
The only real benefit I could have seen for myself was if I lived outside of the US for more than six months of the year from time to time.
Pretty much this. Should I choose to move back home, it'd be nice not to have to go through the whole green card process over again.
Maybe I'm hedging my bets too much.
He paid for college. He paid for taxes while he was using the infrastructure you've mentioned. Now he's going to greener pastures and you still expect him to continue to support the U.S. through taxes? I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense. I don't continue to pay college tuition because at some point that "infrastructure" helped me land a job. I paid that debt off, and it's behind me.
I don't want to turn this into a political discussion, but this is why I disagree with people suggesting that the U.S. will fix its problems by increasing the taxes on the rich. The rich will leave- the U.S. doesn't offer anything that other countries in the world can't, and at a cheaper cost.
given the number of high qualified jobs Facebook has created, the taxes that both FB and employees are paying, and Facebook's continued support towards the startup ecosystem, calling ES a sociopath is simply wrong.
1. In the clinical sense it's hardly reasonable to infer that he is; the parent poster was being hyperbolic.
Maybe our 3rd world quality public educational system? He didn't attend a public high school or college.