>But Ireland has no liability for UK public pensions incurred before the appointed day on which reunification occurs. The UK does.
This is not something that they know. So to state that is incorrect.
Pensions are paid out of current expenditure so its very likely pensions will fall to the new state.
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Well….when NI votes for reunification the UK will not pay a cent/pence, why should they. NI is costing them a fortune and this is their way out. They will laugh in Westminster and say to the Irish government, “You wanted them, there you go….” and run for the door……
But but a west-brit told us it would be 20BN a year with no benefits?
Are you telling me they weren’t telling the truth?
Ireland can keep the land and UK the people. LoL.
I wonder if all the people praising this report will ever bother reading it, or understand anything about economics. Just be honest and get chat GTP to write a report “tell me what I want to hear about X” I doubt these economists reports actually change anyones minds
>>But redistribution, done properly, will be from rich to middle and poor, not from the South to the North.
What does this mean exactly? Who’s rich?
What needs to happen is we need solid evidence of how much unification would cost each year and who pays for it. Not possible scenarios for example, people saying the UK would/should honour certain debts or the UK or US will give us money.
Voters, tax payers, need to know exactly what it will mean to them in real terms, all based on confirmed numbers, to make an informed decision.
Why is there all this talk of reunification? Our government can’t manage the counties we have now, so why would anyone in the north want to join the Republic? If anything, they should be pushing for an independent Nothern Ireland and we should be looking to join them.
This article either agrees or disagrees with my beliefs therefor it is right or wrong.
Ad nauseum
At this point these reports are sus af whichever way they lean. I have a hard time believing the whole thing won’t be for profit for some US based hedge funds. Buy up all the property and land in NI on the cheap then do the same thing they did to the republic.
For those that aren’t aware somehow, the same funds that own a significant % of the US tech corporations in Ireland and have even board seats are the same funds buying up all the property and having those Irish corporations import workers to drive up the demand. It may come as a nice little prospectus like “Ireland 2040 plan” or whatever and promise economic development when they get even Irish or EU taxpayer money to fund the housing plans and office space and people will feel richer for a time, but this will destroy your country once they have looted all the value and move to the next “developing nation to invest in”
Once your workers realise they are getting shafted and need US style salaries just to afford a home then they just get up and leave somewhere else.
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>But Ireland has no liability for UK public pensions incurred before the appointed day on which reunification occurs. The UK does.
This is not something that they know. So to state that is incorrect.
Pensions are paid out of current expenditure so its very likely pensions will fall to the new state.
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Well….when NI votes for reunification the UK will not pay a cent/pence, why should they. NI is costing them a fortune and this is their way out. They will laugh in Westminster and say to the Irish government, “You wanted them, there you go….” and run for the door……
But but a west-brit told us it would be 20BN a year with no benefits?
Are you telling me they weren’t telling the truth?
Ireland can keep the land and UK the people. LoL.
I wonder if all the people praising this report will ever bother reading it, or understand anything about economics. Just be honest and get chat GTP to write a report “tell me what I want to hear about X” I doubt these economists reports actually change anyones minds
>>But redistribution, done properly, will be from rich to middle and poor, not from the South to the North.
What does this mean exactly? Who’s rich?
What needs to happen is we need solid evidence of how much unification would cost each year and who pays for it. Not possible scenarios for example, people saying the UK would/should honour certain debts or the UK or US will give us money.
Voters, tax payers, need to know exactly what it will mean to them in real terms, all based on confirmed numbers, to make an informed decision.
Why is there all this talk of reunification? Our government can’t manage the counties we have now, so why would anyone in the north want to join the Republic? If anything, they should be pushing for an independent Nothern Ireland and we should be looking to join them.
This article either agrees or disagrees with my beliefs therefor it is right or wrong.
Ad nauseum
At this point these reports are sus af whichever way they lean. I have a hard time believing the whole thing won’t be for profit for some US based hedge funds. Buy up all the property and land in NI on the cheap then do the same thing they did to the republic.
For those that aren’t aware somehow, the same funds that own a significant % of the US tech corporations in Ireland and have even board seats are the same funds buying up all the property and having those Irish corporations import workers to drive up the demand. It may come as a nice little prospectus like “Ireland 2040 plan” or whatever and promise economic development when they get even Irish or EU taxpayer money to fund the housing plans and office space and people will feel richer for a time, but this will destroy your country once they have looted all the value and move to the next “developing nation to invest in”
Once your workers realise they are getting shafted and need US style salaries just to afford a home then they just get up and leave somewhere else.