Ireland is a net contributor to the eu, it’s taxes are within the eu’s laws, Ireland had to catch up to countries that built themselves on centuries of slavery and plundering other parts of the world.
Yet somehow Ireland is bad for wanting a sovereign wealth fund.
broke bitches will be mad
A lot of the Irish news articles have been referring to it as a “rainy day fund”. We’ll it’s raining quite a lot right now, the health service is falling apart, our public transport infrastructure is appalling and the housing / rent crisis is getting worse by the week. I’d appreciate if that money was used now please.
The Irish brigade is here.
We’re like Smaug
Go on the lads
Charlie McCreevey started one of those and it was robbed to bail out the banks.
Hope they secure this one so it can’t be robbed again
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Sorry, we couldn’t replicate the English/coloniser business model of butchering people and stealing their land. lol.
I don’t understand, why a rich country like Ireland can have a wealth fund, high GDP etc, yet is only contributing (net) very little to the EU?
[https://www.statista.com/statistics/253712/eu-budget-expenditures-by-member-state/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/253712/eu-budget-expenditures-by-member-state/)
Euro per capita, 2021
|Germany|256|
|:-|:-|
|Denmark|241|
|Sweden|238|
|Netherlands|229|
|Finland|171|
|France|157|
|Austria|141|
|**Ireland**|**76**|
|Italy|25|
Edit:
Ireland’s gross contribution is actually right at the top ([list](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/175zhut/comment/k4jovk8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)), but Ireland receives much more from the [Common Agricultural Policy](https://www.arc2020.eu/agriculture-atlas-tied-to-the-land/) than others.
Ireland is a net contributor to the eu, it’s taxes are within the eu’s laws, Ireland had to catch up to countries that built themselves on centuries of slavery and plundering other parts of the world.
Yet somehow Ireland is bad for wanting a sovereign wealth fund.
broke bitches will be mad
A lot of the Irish news articles have been referring to it as a “rainy day fund”. We’ll it’s raining quite a lot right now, the health service is falling apart, our public transport infrastructure is appalling and the housing / rent crisis is getting worse by the week. I’d appreciate if that money was used now please.
The Irish brigade is here.
We’re like Smaug
Go on the lads
Charlie McCreevey started one of those and it was robbed to bail out the banks.
Hope they secure this one so it can’t be robbed again
Become like norway. Good luck 👍
maybe they should buy an air force instead
What does a sovereign wealth fund mean ?
Never a bad idea.