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Google Warns Irish Government Against Tax Increase
theodp writes "The Irish government has been given a stark warning from some of the biggest American companies in Ireland on the risk of a mass exodus if the country's controversial low corporate tax rate is raised in return for an IMF/EU bailout to shore up the country's beleaguered banking system. According to The Telegraph, a statement signed by senior execs at Microsoft, HP, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and Intel points out that although Ireland's tax rate may be low in European terms, it is not when compared with locations such as Singapore, India and China. Separately, the head of Google's 2,000-strong European HQ in Dublin told the Belfast Telegraph, 'anything that impinges on Ireland's competitiveness is going to be a big thing for Google,' adding, 'anything that increases the cost-base of a business is negative for competitiveness.'"
Right. I have mod points, but not nearly enough to correct even half of the retarded stuff in this discussion. Welcome to Obama's America, where not taxing == spending, and attracting high-paying service jobs to your country makes it go broke.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
No one said Bush was any better. But we haven't been attracting "high-paying service jobs" to the US. We've been attracting worthless immigrants and exporting high-paying service jobs. Nice try, though.