DublinTexas
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I have to say that I do think these concerns are real. When you look at this from a logical point of view - why stay here if we become a high tax economy, when you can go to other high tax economies and enjoy far better services for those taxes?
Look at what you get in Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany etc for what you pay. You get far superior roads, superior public transport, superior health etc. What do you get here for your higher taxes?
Thinking about it in the 'Shopping Around' sense of things (which we were all encouraged to do a while back in order to get the best deals!) then you have to say that a high tax Ireland would be rather poor value for money. Unless you really loved the country, or were stuck here for some reason - you have to say there are better options out there, even with the global downturn.
I hate to run down the country - on a beautiful day there's no nicer place - but our leaders have really let us down, and this time it could screw the country for a decade or more. Do we really want to stay when all we hear every day is depressing the life out of us? Could you take ten years of this? Could you even take 5 years of it?
And this why mobile workers (which are funny enough the people which the unions want to take the money way from to re-distribute wealth) might go an leave because they have the option now that companies are starting to move away.
A couple of people I used to work with in other companies got the offer to move to either Germany or Sweden where the company intents to move large parts of it's HQ to. While previously they were of the opinion that unrooting their family would not be worth it they now might move.
The class warfare that is going on here (and sadly in the Communist Federation of America) is a joke. Large parts of the population pay nothing in taxes and the goverment relys on the "better off" to take the largest tax burden. Fair would mean that the tax burden is spread more even not having "better off" people pay more.