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> Corporate tax rates are the same as other countries in Western Europe

Except for Ireland with its 12.5%

"12.5%"...there is relatively little evidence that tech companies are paying anything close to this rate (yes, after the loopholes were closed...still plenty of loopholes left).

Makes you feel the solution to the Brexit-induced problem with the Northern Ireland border is to kick Ireland out (if they don't shape up ASAP).

Why stop there? Kick out Poland and Belarus for being undemocratic, kick out the rest of Eastern Europe for being homophobic, and then kick out Greece and Italy for the unsustainable deficits — maybe Spain and Portugal, by that point, too.

> Kick out Poland and Belarus

You really shouldn't show off your ignorance like that.

Are you saying you haven’t seen the media express a concern that those two are becoming less democratic, or are you more concerned that my plan to kick out nations who don’t fall in line with the EU bureaucrats’ vision of the ideal economic and social policy is doomed to end in the dissolution of the bloc in a reductio ad absurdam?

Because if it’s the former I can find you lots of links, whereas if it’s the latter that’s merely the point.

https://ecfr.eu/article/for-europe-losing-britain-is-bad-kee...

https://amp.france24.com/en/live-news/20210501-human-rights-...

No, I'm saying it would be bloody hard to kick Belarus out of the EU, since it was never in it.

Ah! I'm sure we'll find a way.

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