Need, greed: The issue that tops all others  Some Americans,
feeling overtaxed and discouraged by the direction of their
country, are thinking about renouncing their U.S. citizenship.
That came up during small talk after a luncheon hosted Thursday
by the Maine Heritage Policy Center at a Portland restaurant.
High-income Americans, including some in Maine, are so fed up
they are exploring the possibility of renouncing something most
hold dear, their official attachment to their native land.  Some
places, like Hong Kong, cap income taxes at much lower rates
and, generally, don't poke around so much in the affairs of
their wealthy citizens. Others like the Netherlands, have even
higher taxes than we do, on the order of 68 percent.  There has
been a small surge in people renouncing their citizenship for
tax purposes, according to an Aug. 12 Wall Street Journal
article.  Most of them are already living overseas, where they
have made a lot of money and resent the U.S. government's new
crackdown on foreign banks a