At the end of the day though, rich people have a lot to fear from government in just about any country. In countries where they can evade a bunch of tax laws, they have to worry about the government turning on them and seizing all of their assets. And in those countries they typically have to worry much more about people revolting against them since their are less laws to protect their assets.
I mean hell, even the banks they store their money in can just take the money and not give it back. What are they going to do about it? Call the U.S. government?
And a lot of it has to do with the quality of life in countries as well. You can have the best business in the world, but it really does you no good if none of your employees want to live in the country where you built your business.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
