Ireland's reliance on Corporation Tax receipts

I'm drunk. It's Saturday night. It's blatantly obvious, the fact that we act the bollix with MNCs to give us a ton of tax instead of being a country that builds and creates something of value that the rest of the world wants. We are fecked lads

well tbh I was thinking with the possible level of lawlessness and disdain for the rule of law in the incoming authoritarian administration, US may start ignoring patents and IP in the same vein as China, and just do 'whatever the hell they want' (in the words of the great orange one) 😉

There are thousands of highly skilled Irish workers , some are highly trained globally elite employees. As a result of decades of government policy and Irish culture of education and work ethic. It's not just acting the bollix with mncs

Okay. So the Israelis are out and their embassador is gone.

So is that memo or email on its way to the states?

Or was it just bluster from her that inward investment would halt with worsening relations with Israel.

We shall see.

We shall see.

More scaremongering, this kinda get tiring.

As it has been pointed out, the tariffs will be paid by American importers, it will take huge investments and time to even try to set up supply in America, so it won’t be leaving Ireland anytime soon, if at all.

It legitimately seems like you want all these bad things to happen to Ireland, all the time.

Preaching the end of the world without a bible mate, as always.

There won’t be any collapse, just like the EU didn’t hang Ireland out to dry like you said it would during Brexit.

It more reads like you want this to happen, and don’t really have anything at all to back it up.

You have literally nothing to back any of this up. You say it is grim, that is because you think it is, it is purely subjective.

Ireland does have world class infrastructure, by nearly every modern metric Ireland is a very successful country in its own right. You saying otherwise doesn’t change that, it just makes your argument sound bitter.

Our gov didn’t bet anything on the election, nothing. This is conjecture.

All this doom and gloom just comes across as you wanting it to happen, you’ve provided nothing at all as evidence, nothing.

You are stating nothing objective, this is all subjective, and based on little to no evidence.

Your argument doesn’t come across as informed on this one bit, I’m sorry to say.

For a start, it would take years and billions to shift pharma production to America, probably closer to a decade really with the sheer volume of work needed.

Trump says a lot of things, if you are believing him well I hate to break it to you, he lies, a lot. On top of that, saying they will bring XYZ industry back to America but not saying how…smoke and mirrors my friend. There is no plan at all for this, just words. Look at who is in charge of the Health Department now, and you think big countries will be rushing back state side? C’mon now.

We don’t have EU neighbours, we are the EU. And yes, if Trump puts Tariffs on Ireland, it can apply to the EU due to the customs union we are all in. You said that the EU would throw Ireland out with the bath water during Brexit, you were very heavily wrong on that. You are equally as wrong here too.

First, Ireland is the EU, it is not Ireland and the EU. This is probably where your argument is leading you astray in that you are thinking we jockyback on the EU somehow. We don’t, we are an equal member, this was shown very clearly during Brexit (when you said the EU would dump Ireland for the UK, remember?).

Germany and France are not exactly on great terms with the US seeing as Trump is threatening the EU as a whole, so yes, I think they will be quite happy to support Ireland, as they have done. Being an equal members brings benefits.

If anyone is delusional it might be you, my friend. You are providing a very subjective view point, no evidence other than this subservient idea that Ireland will be thrown to the wolves by other EU member states.

You’ve not a shred of evidence to back your position up, just admit that much. You seem to have this hatred for Ireland, and want them to be walked over. It is truly bizarre.

One would wonder why its going to take another "couple of months" to review and come up with a tarrif plan for states that run massive trade deficits with the US when the data is very obviously freely available and the relevant people have known for at least two months now that they would be in roles to make those decisions. If you look at the raft of exec orders signed in the past few weeks, you'd know that at least some research had been done into these things. Some sweeping changes have happened in the US already so not sure why the significant delay on these specific ones…….leaving room for some form of negotiation or perhaps a chance for the organisations involved to make their case/present plans to the US on repatriation of jobs and/or cash…………

Ireland is the EU

News to me.

Mod - warned for trolling, it's obvious what the quoted post meant

Trump's treasury secretary Scott Bessent leaving the message "America First" in the shannon airport guest book yesterday seems a bit ominous, no?

https://www.aol.com/treasury-sec-scott-bessent-leaves-210614802.html