From the article, &quot;In 2010, just 1,006 gave up being US citizens, but since then the numbers have risen every year.&quot;<p>Let&#x27;s think quantitatively to see if there is really a net trend here. In the most recently reported year, there were approximately 680,000 new United States citizens through naturalization.[1] So barely more than 1,000 United States citizens renouncing citizenship is swamped by several hundred thousand new citizens each year. I am an American citizen who has spent two three-year stays working and living abroad during my adult life. I&#x27;ve read about this taxation issue for decades, and filed United States tax forms from my place of foreign residence, but I&#x27;ve never seen a good reason to renounce my United States citizenship, nor has anyone else in my family.<p>The most common complaint about United States policies around citizenship that I see here on Hacker News is the complaint that it should be much easier to come to the United States to work on an employment-based visa. (It&#x27;s more difficult than many participants on Hacker News desire, but settling in the United States with an employment-based visa is sufficiently easy that I know people just in my own social circle here in the Midwest who have settled here from Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Taiwan, China, India, Pakistan, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Ecuador, Argentina, Korea, and a variety of other countries. Many people would like even more employment-based visas to be available, but they are already available by the tens of thousands.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uscis.gov&#x2F;archive&#x2F;archive-news&#x2F;naturalization-fact-sheet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uscis.gov&#x2F;archive&#x2F;archive-news&#x2F;naturalization-fa...</a>