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

Its not a racket American company's choose the setup here based on tax rates it's also good we speak English and had a large well educated work force and a stable economy Ireland has a good image in America we have ties there in terms of Irish emigrants and a similar culture

They also need to be here to gain access to the eu market place and have a large educated workforce i.m not saying tax loopholes are not important by the way Tesla pays off only 1.5 tax rate in America .anyway the Irish economy is booming versus UK economy in an mediocre situation. UK councils have to reduce services

That depends what you class as richer?.

Possibly we feel richer here when looking at the salaries and take home pay but on the other side of the argument is infrastructure and cost of living.

If you take infrastructure for an example, we are definitely not richer.

If you read the UK papers about labour the economy it's not a positive situation with vague talk about growth or some bs obout being an Ai

Superpower .

Ireland is the fourth richest country in the world.

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/

And as you know right well, GDP isn't indicative of really anything in Ireland due to American multis domiciliing their intellectual property here.

Therefore that stat is just that - a statistic, - worse than damned lies.

Every country has an angle on something. Everyone finds a niche, it's how they survive. Do the Swiss have a racket with the banking, or the Spanish with their tourism or the Brits with their financial hub. Take away any niche from any country and it's in bother.

Sure we shouldn't rely on FDI as much as we do, but the self loathing that goes on is just nauseating.

Nothing to do with self-loathing.

The problem with our economy is that we are more dependent to American multinational firms than the British are to the city of London.

For McWilliams to start having a pop at the UK when we are even more exposed to external factors smacks of "green jersey" economics. Something that's ironic, considering he invented the term.

if you go by the news the UK government is just raising tax's on everything it can to balance the books or hoping a new airport can improve the economy .it turns out Brexit is a bad idea as it makes trading with the eu more expensive and they are still dealing with 1000s of immigrants arriving in boats .

Yes you can live cheaper in the UK if you live outside citys and you can buy a house cheap .

The problem we have now is we have 1000s of migrants arriving old buildings are being turned into hostels . Most of our tax revenue comes from 5 American corporations trump is taking about tariffs on European imports including Ireland .

The American economy is heading for a recession due to the tariff war and doges chaotic attack on the federal government which

has a trillion dollar budget and pays all pensions and the bill for medicare for old and retired people .The stock market has lost billions .Warren Buffet is selling most of his America shares and real estate investments as he does not trust trump or musk to act in an rational manner in regards to the economy .

Look on drudge.com lots of headlines about trump wreaking the economy falling stock market the price of gold is going up .

Every month there seems to be news of retail company's like wh smith closing shops in the UK

The UK is entirely based around the financial sector now so they're equally exposed as we are.

McWilliams criticises our economy and the way we do things nearly every podcast he does. If it was all he did, it'd get a bit tedious. He's allowed point out the flaws in the US, UK and elsewhere.

We have alot of issues, but even the most powerful economies on earth have as many issues or worse.

It's daylight robbery yet we keep being told that Ireland is a "rich country".

UK has National Insurance that's higher than PRSI, council tax on every adult, and water charges. Total tax/cost burden is similar or higher for most

You are ignoring the actual content of my post to repeat your statement. The UK total tax/cost load is similar to here as council tax applies to every household and is many times higher than LPT, and water charges alone are often two to three times LPT.

Headline tax rates do not reflect total tax burden, and it is deliberately deceitful to pretend they do.

The NHS is in ribbons and is near impossible to access, so that is not a benefit. GP appointments take days of calling at 8am to schedule, dentistry services don't exist.

dentistry services don't exist

There's no point in even debating with someone who can pull an outrageous lie like this out of their ass.