House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on ABC’s “This Week” called Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s decision to renounce his United States citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes on his Facebook stock “absolutely outrageous.”
Boehner said that while such a move was “already against the law,” and that a new bill sponsored by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey that would ensure Saverin paid the taxes and bar him from re-entering the U.S. was unnecessary, he would support it anyway.
“If it’s necessary, I’d surely support it,” Boehner said.
