Ireland has attracted many tech companies including Twitter, and the latter has a massive employment footprint here.
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dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
I was thinking “this wouldn’t be successful in the USA”, and yep, it’s in Ireland.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
girthero@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I wouldn’t mind corporate tax breaks to public companies (like ireland gives) as long as the gov’t taxes private wealth enough to fund decent social programs like Ireland.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My experience living an working across Europe, including The Netherlands which is pretty similar to Ireland, is that the result of a low corporate tax system for the common people is to end up paying high personal taxes whilst getting inferior public services: it really stands out just how bad the public services are for the amount of personal taxes one pays in a place like The Netherlands compared to other countries in Europe.
That scheme can work for city states and similarly tiny nations (Singapore, Luxemburg, Cayman Islands and so on) probably because the additional jobs they bring do make a lot of difference in a place with so few people, but it doesn’t seem to work all that well in nations that aren’t micro (though the trickery of counting the passing-through profits from whole continents of those large companies in the local GDP of the low corporate tax nation, does allow politicians to swindle the Economically-uneducated and claim they made the country “grow”).
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Damn, $600k times 35 people is only $21mil. That’s pocked change for this jerk. And yet, I’ll bet he fights paying just the $600k to the one person tooth and nail like the spoiled rich fuck that he is.
Allonzee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Imagine taking pride in this fucking gold plated cesspool.
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
I’ve lived in the USA for 11 years, and there’s some things in the USA that I really like, but the lack of worker and consumer rights is a major issue. At least California has some consumer rights, but it’s nowhere near as strong as where I’m from (Australia).