Dozens of massive data centers are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here.
You do not have a right or obligation to leverage your advantage at the expense of everyone else, no matter how many Ayn Rand loving psychopaths will try and argue otherwise.
As an abstract system, yeah, that is mechanistically how it works. If you live your life and make real world decisions based on an abstract system that doesn’t accurately and wholistically model the real world, then you’re either lying to yourself, or us, or you don’t understand the purpose of money and capitalism in the first place.
Economy of what? A country that has no jobs outaide of Dublin, and rents beyond what a median income can afford in Dublin? Ireland has a fake economy that is built entirely on lies with no money going to actual working people. It’s like if Rhode Island eas an independent country.
I’m sorry, Ireland will never be sanctioned for this. They’re aligned with two powerful trading blocs.
Inside the EU: they don’t meaningfully do anything to stop this practice of tax avoidance. They’ll play a good game taking US multinationals to court, yes, and imposing laughable fines. But ultimately they’re not going to outright ban this practice or force Ireland to stop. They’re either not capable or unwilling. Time has showed both.
Friends with the US: if there’s any “special relationship” with the US, it’s not France it’s not the UK it’s Ireland. There’s too many votes, to be blunt, in the “Irish American” caucuses for The US to change any position on Ireland regarding tax evasion.
Time to face facts. That tax isn’t coming home. It’s being funneled via Ireland for the benefit of US multinationals who wish their CEOs to vacation in Hawaii twice a year for a small cut taken by Ireland.
Well, quick buck or not, check their economy before and after and report back to explain what else exactly they could leverage to their advantage
You do not have a right or obligation to leverage your advantage at the expense of everyone else, no matter how many Ayn Rand loving psychopaths will try and argue otherwise.
That’s capitalism, playing your advantage for gain.
As an abstract system, yeah, that is mechanistically how it works. If you live your life and make real world decisions based on an abstract system that doesn’t accurately and wholistically model the real world, then you’re either lying to yourself, or us, or you don’t understand the purpose of money and capitalism in the first place.
Economy of what? A country that has no jobs outaide of Dublin, and rents beyond what a median income can afford in Dublin? Ireland has a fake economy that is built entirely on lies with no money going to actual working people. It’s like if Rhode Island eas an independent country.
Is this supposed to justify the behavior?
Should Ireland be sanctioned or put on that list?
I’m sorry, Ireland will never be sanctioned for this. They’re aligned with two powerful trading blocs.
Inside the EU: they don’t meaningfully do anything to stop this practice of tax avoidance. They’ll play a good game taking US multinationals to court, yes, and imposing laughable fines. But ultimately they’re not going to outright ban this practice or force Ireland to stop. They’re either not capable or unwilling. Time has showed both.
Friends with the US: if there’s any “special relationship” with the US, it’s not France it’s not the UK it’s Ireland. There’s too many votes, to be blunt, in the “Irish American” caucuses for The US to change any position on Ireland regarding tax evasion.
Time to face facts. That tax isn’t coming home. It’s being funneled via Ireland for the benefit of US multinationals who wish their CEOs to vacation in Hawaii twice a year for a small cut taken by Ireland.
Luck of the Irish, eh?