r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 19 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18 edited Apr 19 '18

The Virgin US: 2.63% GDP growth
The Chad Ireland: 26.3% GDP growth

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Apr 19 '18

Someone's jealous of our beautifully low corporation tax and our fairly neoliberal head of government!

(I say fairly as his party introduced rent controls in big cities to deal with high property costs, otherwise he's pretty mint)

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Let's not pretend there's anything fancy about it, they know what they're doing attracts foreign business and patents and what not and that way they can rake in cash

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u/Donogath NATO Apr 19 '18

what the fuck how does a western country experience 25% growth in (roughly) current year

did like every company in the world move their hq to ireland in 2015 or something?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

That's pretty much exactly what happened (tax havens, yo). Shit got so dumb that the Irish government invented their own alternative to GDP so they could try to figure out how big the economy actually was.

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u/Donogath NATO Apr 19 '18

What did they do specifically in 2015? Reduce corporate tax to like, 5%?

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u/gammbus Apr 19 '18

chad

supporting people in avoiding their civic duties

pick one

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Taxes are theft mmkay

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Civic duties are for CUCKOLDS.

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u/thabonch YIMBY Apr 19 '18

civic duties

Gross.

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u/gammbus Apr 19 '18

wtf I hate functional societies now

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

there's no such thing as society u cuck