Who goes to Ireland for business???????????????

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[ingac70]

1. That stuff about taxes being so much higher in the US...

for businesses is a lie.

[Virginia Dare]

2. I know, my jaw is starting to go slack...n/t

[MichiganVote]

3. Actually Ireland's not doing so hot just now.

[Muttocracy]

4. they did well in dot-com era right? probably not so much now, and vs. India. nt

[CountAllVotes]

5. Ireland is in a big recession right NOW

they fell first, the rest of the EU is following right now!!

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[aquart]

6. It was going so well. What happened?

Is it our fault?

[MichiganVote]

8. Ireland doens't have much in the way of a diversified econ. Land sales account for much.

[CountAllVotes]

10. duo reasons

1. Many of the jobs that were there are now gone (U.S. based ... i.e. DELL computer in Limerick closed down recently; others have had to close up).

2. SUB-PRIME loans in Ireland. They loaned out a lot of money just like was done here. Houses went way up in price. Many stand vacant now and there are no buyers. Different country, same story as here. :(

:kick:

[AlCzervik]

7. there are some high tech companies there right now, i don't know how it's going

but my husband works for one of those companies.

[CountAllVotes]

12. it is not going good over there

a relative of mine is there right now and it sucks. Lots of unemployment, no jobs and GLOBAL WARMING. It has been raining there for the past 3-4 months straight! :scared:

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[autorank]

9. Ireland is a grat place for business. They'd throw McCain politics out in no time.

Highly educated work force, well trained in math, information science.

[JDPriestly]

11. Ireland does not spend as high a portion of its budget on defense

as we do. I believe that they have universal health care. Income taxes and sales taxes in Europe are much higher than here.