Flag-waving patriots don’t particularly impress me. Too many are the types to want to go to war–but never serve themselves (a la Dick Cheney’s “I had other priorities” during the Vietnam War). Here’s an economic “patriot” who is only as good as profits to her corporation.
Heather Bresch grew up around politics. Her father is Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia and a former governor. She has heard him say repeatedly, “We live in the greatest country on Earth,” as he did in countless political advertisements. And it appeared to rub off on her: Ms. Bresch was named a “Patriot of the Year” in 2011 by Esquire magazine for helping to push through the F.D.A. Safety Innovation Act.
Until she was looking to save money:
But on Monday, Ms. Bresch announced plans to renounce her company’s United States citizenship and instead become a company incorporated in the Netherlands, where the tax rates are lower.
America…so yesterday.
