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by alephnerd 15 days ago
The "Double Irish Dutch Sandwich" approach ended almost a decade ago as I mentioned, yet tech FDI remains strong and a hallmark of Ireland's economy.

We're still investing in Ireland because IDA and Enterprise Ireland are competent.

And at the end of the day, Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, and Croatia have all voted with or abstained in favor of Ireland when questions about Ireland's approach came up in the EU.

The primary countries complaining have been France, Italy, and Spain.

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I thought that went on until 2020, in any case, sure after the corporate taxes of the entire world were funneled there and had created data centers and imported a workforce to Ireland, it is now a place worth investing in.

However that does not make this construct any more moral