Except they raised the fees for doing so something like %1,000 in the intervening period. Remember, you don't get to just renounce. You have to petition the go

Except they raised the fees for doing so something like %1,000 in the intervening period. Remember, you don't get to just renounce. You have to petition the government for permission to have a hearing to renounce, and then you have to show up at this hearing -- in an embassy on foreign soil-- and give them reasons to let you renounce. IF you say the wrong thing, they will not let you renounce. The old adage "love it or leave it" forgets that we are, as far as the federal government is concerned, cattle, who can only wander off if we aren't too valuable. If you are worth several million, you will not be able to renounce without paying hefty taxes, and even then you probably need to rent some politicians with pull to influence the situation.