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This is similar to how rich people will threathen to leave a country if taxes for them go up yet never do, because they live were they live and do business were they do business because of how good for them it is to live there and how much more profitable it is to do business were people are more prosperous and the Law actually works.
Turns out that such people want the quality of life they get living were they are and the juicy profits from operating their businesses there, whilst not paying for what makes it all possible themselves and thus be parasites on the rest, is just the cherry on top: they have no problem in saying whatever it takes - because talkie-talkie costs them nothing - to keep on getting that quality of life and profits whilst somebody else pays for the conditions that make it possible, what they're not fine with is the actually doing what they say they will do because if they do act as they threathen, it will cost them said quality of life and profits.
Unsurprisingly (for those who question things a bit further and don't just accept at face value the theatrics of society's top parasites) that "Paradise" free of "government oppression" called Somalia has failed to attract any of those those who claim they will leave the place were they live and do business when society elects somebody who will make them pay their fair share for that quality of life they so enjoy.
Around the world, rich people often do relocate personally for tax purposes. One of the reasons we don't often see rich people in the United States do this is that we have incredibly low taxes compared to the rest of the world. And that's just nominal tax rates; in practice the super-rich pay almost nothing, which makes it even weirder how rabidly anti-tax they are.
There is quite a bit of business relocation that happens because companies are lured to different locales through tax abatements.
The much, much bigger reason we don't see that in the US is that the US is the only country in the world that can, and does, tax citizens living abroad. Anyone trying to avoid US taxes would have to renounce US citizenship
The US only taxes the difference between the country's tax amount and the US tax amount, at least. Someone living in Sweden may not have to pay anything while someone in Thailand may owe most of their taxes to the US. It still is wild that they demand tax money from citizens all over the world though.
That is true, although I doubt many rich people care where the tax money goes. They just care about the amount they get taxed