The whole ‘tax haven’ debate has been surreal. The orthodoxy have had to attempt to deny the undeniable and they went ahead and still did it. ‘Evidence based policy making’ is, I believe, a big thing in political science. The evidence that Ireland is a tax haven is, as we know, overwhelming, but the wonks still insist that simultaneously bullying ordinary citizens for a couple of hundred in property tax can sit easily with a polity that lets multinationals escape their tax liability. But today I have had a masterclass in duplicity that made me realise that become a paid up member of the Irish elite you have to seriously believe some fucked up shit.
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