Ireland: High Tech & Low Corporate Tax

If you missed it, yesterday's Kansas City Star carried an AP article on Ireland supposedly, but really on Dublin specifically - and even more specifically, on the rapidly expanding European headquarters of Internet search-engine giant Google, which it calls a symbol for the new, immigrant-rich Ireland.

The EU's highest per capita GDP, unemployment at an EU-low 4.4 percent, top of the EU's 15 original members in having enterprises with innovation activity, 12.5 percent tax rate on corporate profits being the lowest in Europe, and all the usual stuff.

It also includes figures on new immigrants, most especially the Polish, and on Irish emigrants returning from the US.

Oh yeah, and Henry Street is now a boulevard apparently, despite it being no broader than it was before - which wasn't broad - and not exactly what you'd call landscaped, any more than say, Kansas City's 12th street.


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