Before someone starts a registered charity for the ritually abused American pilots who labour unnoticed and unloved at Emirates, please do recall that by coming here they can save about $30,000 of tax by being outside the USA. Unless one has a wish to die horribly on a dusty freeway, run down and left to expire by some 18 year old thug, this is clearly not worth leaving home for.
I, on the other hand, dodge about $128,000 of home-country tax by being here and for that premium I am willing to dodge or ignore most of downsides.
The USA is one of the very few countries which taxes on citizenship, making little reduction in the tax bill in light of one's residency. It entirely changes the conversation. Rather than singing "should I stay or should I go", Americans at EK should be belting out "I'm so glad I'm living in the USA".
Appropriately then, not The Clash but emphatically Chuck Berry.