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Aipsh
Feb 17, 2006


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khwarezm posted:

I want to get something off my chest, god I loving hate this country and its pathetic kowtowing tax policies towards giant multinationals. And I most of all hate the way other Irish people think its some genius national policy to make the country the Cayman Islands of Western Europe, on reddit some guy said this to me: 'Im irish and i think its genius, as my moderately well paying job at a multinational underlines'.

The worst part is the way that the government and people who support this kind of thing keep on trotting out the insipid rhetoric of 'Poor little Ireland must protect it sovereignty from the mean ol' EU and fight for its right to allow gigantic faceless megacorps to give loving nothing back to society because they grease the hands of the right people and everyone else believes the dumb propaganda, just as James Connolly envisioned :cryingGuinnesspint:'. I hate that whinging nationalist bullshit enough already and seeing it being exploited to suck the dick of international capital is beyond pathetic, what the gently caress's the point of being independent if noone in this country has enough dignity to hold such forces to any sort of accountability?

I agree with all this but I’m so conflicted - if we hadn’t sunk corporation tax to the bottom would we really have such a (relatively) good economy? I just imagine we’d still be a developing economy if we hadn’t seduced all these horrific faceless mega corps with the promise of paying gently caress all back, or telling them they had social duties but with a wink and a smile.

That said, if these corporations did in fact, actually pay the low rate of tax it’d be nowhere near as bad.

People in other countries do see it as a genius move - it was quite realpolitik. Stealing multinationals from Europe because we could speak English, and taking it from the UK because we had a lower rate of tax. Get all the benefits from the EU while protecting us from giving them a fair shot.

That said with the absolute shitshow of Brexit a Taoiseach with a bit more socialist acumen could eaaaasily use this to force multinationals to actually pay their loving due. But that’s not going to happen is it because it’s not about people it’s somehow, still in 2017, about brown envelopes and family dynasties.

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Aipsh
Feb 17, 2006


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How's turnout looking for the early risers amongst ye?

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