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This is hypothetical. Irish people do have network infrastructures and French people do have a huge amount of redundant/useless bureaucrats. But still, a count
by kubiiii 13y ago
This is hypothetical. Irish people do have network infrastructures and French people do have a huge amount of redundant/useless bureaucrats.
But still, a country lowering taxes to a point where it would attract most of the income of companies operating throughout EU is acting like a parasite, the host being the EU, the blood being the income.
Lowering corporate taxes should be made at the EU level. Because the EU was not intended as a playing field with EU countries competing against eachothers but rather as something more symbiotic where countries specificities would help compete against the rest of the world.
- davidw 13y ago> But still, a country lowering taxes to a point where it would attract most of the income of companies operating throughout EU is acting like a parasite, the host being the EU, the blood being the income. Makes for good political rhetoric, but I don't think it bears much relation to reality. Germany for instance is not 'shriveling up and dying' because of Ireland, and neither is France for that matter. Also, the economy is, fortunately, not a zero sum game with a fixed lump of money to go around. You only need to look at the US as an example: California and NY are not low-tax states, and yet... and yet... there are a lot of companies and a lot of business there. And yes, US states compete.