Taxation in Ireland
Given that the South will soon bear the heavy financial and political burdens of unification,is it not time to look ahead to the immediate future. Basic welfare costs, education needs and health requirements must be funded. Let the Southerners encamp themselves in social security offices and quickly derail the runaway train of welfare dependence. The biggest challenge for unifiers is the health service. People in the North have different expectations and many are ensnared by the tyranny of maladjusted doctors and by chronic need for solace which conceals real social immobility. ... This raises the question of financing basic social infrastructure. We must think in terms of five levels of (non) taxation on income and salaries with the basic proviso that those who can pay more,should pay more. Let us examine the related question of whether the South's prosperity is material or unreal before subjecting tech giants to prohibitively high levels of corporate taxation. Let us build on re...