Lots of big companies commented on Brexit (before the vote). I agree it didn't do them much good in the public eye, but Apple didn't choose to dive into a polit

Lots of big companies commented on Brexit (before the vote). I agree it didn't do them much good in the public eye, but Apple didn't choose to dive into a political debate, it is being dragged into one. I see a bunch of comments from non-Irish people here saying how badly this letter is going down. But it's aimed at the Irish. Ireland has benefited to the tune of tens of thousands of jobs (perhaps way more) from just a handful of big tech firms, in a country with a population of just 4.5 million. It is one of the things that contributes to the falling Irish unemployment rate. If the EU starts trying to systematically move big, rich employers out of Ireland (and that's the purpose of these moves, to eliminate Ireland's "unfair" appeal), then there's a risk Irish sentiment will start to turn against the EU, just like it did in the UK over the issue of immigration. If the EU systematically attacks their primary competitive advantage in order to satisfy the high-tax French and high-debt Spanish, then what becomes of Ireland?