The Issue: Democratic fundraiser Denise Rich’s renouncement of her US citizenship.

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The departure of Denise Rich is another case of “good riddance,” the damage having already been done (“Ain’t That Rich,” Editorial, July 11).

President Clinton, influenced by campaign donations, granted a last-minute pardon to her husband, Marc Rich, a fugitive from justice.

And guess who signed off on the pardon — our current empty-suit attorney general, Eric Holder.

Gary Layton

Interlaken, NJ

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I would be glad if a few more like Rich — liberal sponges — would take flight. If Hillary Rodham Clinton ever becomes president, Rich will crawl out from under her European rock and beg forgiveness.

People like her, who buy influence and then run away when the going gets tough, are a cancer on society.

C. Honadel

Staten Island

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Thanks for your editorial on Rich’s renouncing her American citizenship because of our tax system, which punishes the productive.

The irony, of course, is that Rich helped procure a pardon for her husband by “donating” to the Clinton library in the waning days of the Clinton presidency. This undeserved pardon helped secure Clinton’s reputation as reckless and eminently bribeable.

Rich was and is a major donor to the Democratic Party. Now even the Democratic rats are abandoning the Obama ship, and not a minute too soon.

Alice Lemos

Woodside

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I am an immigrant, and I’d never renounce my citizenship. I can’t blame her, though.

She’s exhibiting typical liberal hypocrisy when it comes to paying the fair share she and her ilk demand of others.

Brad Morris

Astoria