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Ireland issues travel warning for the US.

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#USA #fascism #EU #Ireland

in reply to Aral Balkan

This is all, to me, an American, utterly heartbreaking. My once-great nation is in the hands of thugs and bigots.

Unlike another time a previously civilized country chose a vicious fascist as its leader, this time the rest of the world seems to know exactly what is happening, and it is not keeping quiet about it.

Thanks, rest of the world. You are giving me hope.

in reply to John Refior

does the double Irish still work?

Maybe they should look into changing that 😄😄😄

in reply to tootbrute

@tootbrute @jrefior That was shut down by the EU but they still bend over backwards for them. ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop…
in reply to Aral Balkan

@tootbrute @jrefior The EU has no jurisdiction over Irish tax law. (Try reading the Treaty of Lisbon)

It does over competition in the single market. There's no evidence of tax diversion within the EU.

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in reply to SamuelJohnson

@samueljohnson @tootbrute @jrefior Did anyone say they did? I said they shut down the Double Irish. Which they did.

“Despite US knowledge of the Double Irish for a decade, it was the European Commission that in October 2014 forced Ireland to close the scheme, starting in January 2015.”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double…

in reply to Aral Balkan

Hyperbolic language (on Wikipedia, shocking I know). In the absence of jurisdiction the question of "force", legal or otherwise, doesn't apply. The interpretation of competition rules applies to all member states, of course, and can be leveraged to influence non-members as the UK has discovered.

The Commission cannot "force" Ireland to do anything any more than it could the UK. The ECJ, not the Commission, could, and did, compel *Apple* to pay more tax.

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in reply to Aral Balkan

Nobody in their right mind will go anywhere near them, if they can avoid it @aral
Stay well away
From the USA

#USpol
#boycott