A Wealth Tax, Once Every Thirty Years
The Economist opposes a wealth tax while backing a broader inheritance tax. For the very rich those are the same tax on a different clock, …
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The Plan That Never Says Ireland
The World Inequality Lab's Global Justice Report is the first fully quantified plan to treat inequality compression as a precondition for keeping the planet habitable: …
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The Buyers Show Up Before the Policy Lands
Five separate Chinese-European factory moves landed in April-May 2026: VW cutting 3M units of capacity, Geely talks for Ford Almussafes, Stellantis-Dongfeng $1.2bn Wuhan JV, SAIC/MG …
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The Opening Above Labour
On 26 May 2026 Ivana Bacik wrote to the Social Democrats and Greens only, proposing a narrow left coordination on a Seanad by-election. On 27 …
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Houses for the Kids of Those Who Own Assets
On 27 May 2026, Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris announced a rural-housing planning overhaul that removes caps on homes per farm holding, lifts …
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The Standards Were Never Meant to Be Met
Irish public-policy standards are not aspirational goals being inadequately pursued. They are theatrical artefacts written with engineered holes by the lobbyists who help draft them, …
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Both Halves of the Apparatus
The Irish political class and the Irish media class are two halves of the same apparatus. Both are trained: one not to say anything, the …
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A Poor Politician with Excellent Media Training
On 27 May 2026, with a fresh EPA report showing Ireland on track to deliver only half the greenhouse-gas reductions required by 2030, the Taoiseach …
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The Wealth Tax Ireland Already Has
Ireland implements a 15% minimum effective tax on multinationals via OECD Pillar Two. The same logic applied to individuals worth over 100 million euros is …
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What the Finance Minister Already Knew
Paschal Donohoe reviewed Piketty's Capital and Ideology in The Irish Times in March 2020 and concluded Piketty triumphs. The Irish political class has read the …
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