[lifestyleguru]

> The companies paid $219bn in income tax, just 3.6% of their total revenue of more than $6tn

Meantime dividend tax for an individual in Ireland is a brutal 51%. America is such a greedy leech on Europe's body.

[CalRobert]

Oh! Is it down from 52%? Don’t forget taxing your unrealised gains in etf’s.

The mindset is way different. I remember people in Irish tech slack bemused at the idea of saving for something that wasn’t retirement.