Do you believe that we in Ireland are now richer than those in the UK?

With taxes on pay, plus council rates many low paid workers pay more tax that the rich. I'm not talking as a precentage of income but in actual gross amount.

Rich people don't do that enough for it to have any impact. And the tax take on those is tiny, and about to fall again.

Someone on 1m does not spend 20x as much on things like that than someone on 50k. Someone taking in 1bn does not spend 20,000x as much.

Trickle-down economics is a massive lie.

Your point on education is on point.

We need to ensure it is a priority for all.

The US and the UK have dumbed down education for decades.

One of the reasons the UK has resisted Schengen is the EU having eyes on the movements of non domicile evasion.

We're in Schengen Information System so it's not as easy. Mazers does help with cayman island accounts, but the level of facilitation that UK allows is piracy, old swashbuckling Britain.

https://ormsby-rhodes.ie/ireland-a-destination-for-non-doms/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/13/uk-non-doms-uk-labour-tax-plans

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/personal-finance/tax-revenue-to-fall-as-non-dom-count-reaches-7-000-1.3775001

7000 non doms in Ireland in 2019 and no doubt increasing, 60 odd thousand in the UK and dropping. Proportionately that means more non doms here.
Care to explain what you were waffling on about Schengen for?

Or maybe explain why the Irish government actually went to court to try and help apple avoid paying taxes? Ever heard of leprechaun economics?
Ireland is a fundamental part of the process that knowingly allows Multi national companies avoid paying taxes. Never wondered why one of our largest companies has only a handful of employees and is regulated at a law firm in Dublin?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-irish-subsidiary-paid-zero-corporate-tax-on-220bn-profit-last-year

Britain is in an economic crisis so they they are raisimg tax's and reducing regulations to attract investment This is unlikely to work as they are outside the eu and the election of trump is going to make things worse in terms of trade with the UK meanwhile illegal migrants arrive every day I'm the UK. Rich people will continue to leave the UK talking about building a new runway at Heathrow does not help much

according to Indeed, there are 17,000 jobs within 35 miles of London on over £60,000 per year. In fairness there are only 2000 jobs within 35 miles of Manchester above £60k and 400 jobs over £60k around Edinburgh, but I would hardly say the only jobs are low paid.

it is a typical O’Leary tantrum, but in fairness, our UK business is facing an increase in employment costs of around £3m, so are in the process of cutting the capital budget to try and offset some of this. This will mean two of the three office refurbishments will get canned. Hardly the economic stimulation that Labour promised.

Wow, amazing that Microsoft's Irish subsidary posted 22 billion of profit in a single year. We are indeed fortunate we are the tax haven of the world, and also that we got handouts from the EEC / EU until relatively recently.

Because the UK was the 2nd biggest net contributor to the EEC and EU, it is not difficult to understand why over 50% of voters in the UK voted for Brexit.

I am sure Trump and his government will want to bring Microsoft's 22 billion annual profit back to the USA. Especially when we freeload on our neighbours when it comes to defence too.

We are in the eu but we are closely aligned with us tech corporations whether trump will try and screw this up with extra trade tariffs is hard to say now .read the news in the uk the uk economy is struggling the only idea they have is to loosen planning regs and to raise taxs as much as possible this does not work as companys can just choose to leave to go to low tax countrys rich people can just move to france or italy .

we are facing a world where tech is more important ai could replace millions of jobs like office workers editors artists middle class jobs that the government relys on to get tax revenue. manufacturing jobs in the uk are almost nonexistant

American companys are leading the pace in ai tech apart from deepseek in china which is free to use.

oleary knows it takes 20 years to build an runway and it,ll be funded by charging airlines a levy.

does london even need another runway.

work from home is now standard people mostly travel nowadays to go on holiday

theres alot of low paid jobs in the uk theres alot of crime in the citys its not a great place to live unless you are middle class and on a good salary.

ireland is booming more companys would come here but are put off by high rental costs

if the uk is black ireland is white the uk is like ireland in the 80s its economy is in mediocre condition

Like a house heavily mortgaged, I think we have a huge government debt too, one of the highest in the world per head of population?

third richest per capita after Luxembourg and Singapore.

That tells you everything you need to know I guess.

maybe not, but when the measure of a nations per capita wealth is GDP and the three countries with the highest per capita wealth in the world are all notorious tax havens, it does make you question the basis by which Ireland is claiming to be a rich nation.

No, GDP is a measure of production, not wealth. That production may not be owned by people in that country, so is making people in other countries wealthy. Ireland is a rich country because even when you adjust GDP it is in the ballpark of West European countries.