Ireland is being criticized by the EU for unfair tax exemptions for certain businesses, they say other EU countries can't compete. But 20% of Ireland's GDP comes from foreign companies so there's no shaking them.
Tech jobs are the only jobs that are still available in Ireland. We went from 4% unemployment to 12% in 2 years. [rant]There's a levy on the wages already, they argued that we had one of hte highest minimum wages in Europe.. but we also have one of the highest costs of living.. they're raising taxes on the poor, the rich already have to pay 40% tax so it would have been insane to touch that... but people are still complaining about it (go figure). the HSC has already done everything possible to destroy free medicine (and blamed it on the chemists by trying to force them to sell things at a loss and then saying with the support of the press they are evil capitalists for refusing) health care is damaged, free education is gone, language support for immigrant children gone, class sizes bigger..... Oh I could go on and on but I'm ranting.. all the perks are gone. The country is fecked, but no one is going to starve. And a poor person in ireland is still financially 150 times better off than a poor person in America, our social welfare never runs out, and everyone is always entitled to whatever health care they need. [/rant]
