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After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes The Daily Mirror:
Ireland has said it has received more than 100 inquiries from major firms looking to move from the UK because of Brexit. Martin Shanahan, the chief executive of the Industrial Development Agency, said the bulk of the interest came from banks and financial institutions based in the City of London. He told the Guardian newspaper that Dublin was looking to capitalize on Brexit by wooing firms with its low corporation tax rate and status as the only English speaking country in the EU after the UK leaves the trading bloc... A recent report by accountants PwC said up to 100,000 jobs in the UK financial services sector could be lost if the UK cannot strike a deal on passporting.
The New York Times also reports on the European Medicines Agency -- which oversees approval of drugs across Europe (like America's FDA) from London. The agency believes that relocating to a different country could mean losing up to half its employees, which would majorly impact the licensing and monitoring of prescription drugs for the entire European Union.
The New York Times also reports on the European Medicines Agency -- which oversees approval of drugs across Europe (like America's FDA) from London. The agency believes that relocating to a different country could mean losing up to half its employees, which would majorly impact the licensing and monitoring of prescription drugs for the entire European Union.
Now we know where these traitors stand and where they will be.
Traitors? Who?
The major firms fleeing an alarming, and possibly catastrophic, regulatory landscape in solo Britain? You're being silly. CEOs and entire boards of directors can and have been dismissed -- and even sued -- for not doing their due diligence by mitigating exactly that kind of factor. It's their job.
The employees of said firms? Again, you're being silly. A paycheque is a paycheque. If I had a high-paying job that was relocating, especially if it was just to the other side of the Irish Sea, and even more especially if I could keep my EU passport after doing so, you'd better believe following them would be a strong option. Staying, unemployed, in a country with an uncertain future, might not.
Failing economy? Are you completely fucking retarded? The UK is doing better than most other economies in Europe even with Brexit priced in. And when it comes to broadband, something you seem to have a pea in your knickers about, I live in a small town and I've got BT Infinity. Yea - it's rolled out to most cities and towns in the UK these days. 1mb connections are mostly in rural areas.
Stop writing. You seem to know precisely FUCK ALL about the UK.
I can't really comment on Trump - not being American. With regards to Brexit I can confidently say that the Leave voters in my office did indeed ignore facts and believed what they wanted to hear.
* They were told the UK would have to make concessions to retain access to the single market, but "no, we've a bigger economy then Norway, so we'll get what we want".
* They were told it would devalue the sterling, but "no, that's project fear"
* They were told that Turkey joining the EU was highly unlikely - 1 out of 37 chapters in 10 years - but "no, Merkel will push it through" even though the UK was a bigger proponent than Germany.
* They were given the figures on immigrants being less likely to claim benefits then natives, but ignored them.
not wanting your children raped by welfare migrants,
Migrants from the EU are statistically less likely to be criminals, less likely to be claiming state benefits, and likely to be paying a higher tax rate. Now, if you're in a low-skilled job then you might have a convincing argument that you've suffered disproportionately from freedom of movement driving down wages.
not wanting to be controlled by distant unelected beauracrats
Which Bureaucrats are those? The European Commission employs around 30,000 civil servants. To put that in perspective, that's less than a tenth of the total number employed by the UK alone (and that's only counting ones employed centrally, not anyone employed by local governments). Or did you mean the European Parliament, elected via a party list system? You know, the one that Britain vetoed shifting power towards? Or the Council, composed of elected ministers from the member states? Or the Commission, comprised of one delegate for each country, nominated by their elected governments?
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Except vat tax raises the costs of goods on those who can least afford it. Making the poor pay a higher present age of the taxes.
A person earning $50k a year spends 99% of his income
A person earning $100k a year spends 97% of their income
A person earning $250k a year spends 90% of their income
Above that the percentage drops drastically.
Money not spent on new goods is wasted in a consumer society therefore the top brackets need to be taxed heavily to compensate for their lack of spending
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