Roger Ver is your typical free-loading libertarian millionaire: Loved all the perks he got from living in the United States, didn’t think he should pay for them. In fact, he was so incensed at the idea of having to pay taxes on his millions – that he totally earned in a complete vacuum having nothing to do with the infrastructure created by the tyrannical government – that in 2014, he renounced his citizenship and ran off to live in St. Kitts, a tropical island with almost no taxes.
Except now he’s upset because the US won’t let him back in:
Ver complains that the decision has forced him to miss speaking appointments at conferences and that the US embassy in Barbados refused to even consider the evidence for his application.The official reasoning behind Ver’s rejection is that he doesn’t have sufficient “ties” to his country of residency in the Caribbean and has not demonstrated he has “the ties that will compel to return to your home country after your travel to the United States,” according to a picture he tweeted of a letter that appears to be from the embassy.
In short, US officials are worried that Ver might choose to stay in his native country illegally.
Ver is known as “Bitcoin Jesus” because he fetishsizes the cryptocurrency that he’s hoping will overthrow the evil tyrannical government. Of course, like all libertarians, Ver doesn’t really care what happens to all the people not already rolling in bitcoins because he got his, so to the hell with them. The most annoying part of his hypocrisy? Ver worships a virtual currency that literally only exists because the United States government he loathes so much spent millions of taxpayer dollars to develop the internet that Bitcoin cannot exist without. What a complete and utter tosser.
Ha, ha!
If Ver was the exception that proved the rule that would be one thing, but unfortunately he represents the whole of that rule.
The Rule: The rich don’t give two shits about anybody except other rich people.
Fuck you Ver and the horse you rode out on.
Don’t let anybody back in who has renounced to flee taxation. That should be national policy. The US claim that he might not return to his adopted homeland is not so disingenuous as it seems. Nevis/St.Kitts is a rather strange choice of refuge. It has a thriving drug smuggling industry and a good deal of the dangers that go with those pursuits. I suspect that a very rich man bunkered in the third world around extremes of wealth and poverty, may begin to feel trapped. Good!