{"id":160552,"date":"2025-11-03T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/160552\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:31:09","slug":"perrins-stop-the-nonsense-ireland-is-not-freeloading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/160552\/","title":{"rendered":"PERRINS: Stop the nonsense, Ireland is not &#8216;freeloading&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dear Irish taxpayer. Did you know that despite carrying one of the highest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/perrins-ireland-tax-report-middle-class\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/gript.ie\/perrins-ireland-tax-report-middle-class\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762178221568000&amp;usg=AOvVaw27lE9FzKWkFM5BXguwrM4e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tax<\/a>\u00a0burdens of all OECDs countries you are in fact \u2018a freeloader?\u2019 \u00a0<\/strong>You are freeloading off the great people of Great Britain, according to London based think \u2013 tank Policy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/policyexchange.org.uk\/publication\/peak-ireland\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/policyexchange.org.uk\/publication\/peak-ireland\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762178221568000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ohU3JP-UFJhPzsPAa5uSR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exchange<\/a>\u00a0and it seems everyone in the know on the internet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Irish neutrality is \u2018a joke\u2019 also according to the Irish\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2025\/10\/31\/stephen-collins-irelands-neutrality-is-widely-regarded-as-a-joke-its-time-to-get-real\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2025\/10\/31\/stephen-collins-irelands-neutrality-is-widely-regarded-as-a-joke-its-time-to-get-real\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762178221568000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2cTc7X8nIv-yTKqwgsgOz-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Times<\/a>. Now, most readers should know that I am not one to defend the current government on anything but I am always interested when certain \u2018narratives\u2019 seem to just fall out of the sky. And one of those is that Irish neutrality is a disgrace and Irish taxpayers are freeloading off the Brits and the Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Irish taxpayer. Did you know that despite carrying one of the highest\u00a0tax\u00a0burdens of all OECDs countries you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,6046,32266,179,4893,13,14,6,11,12,24958,15,16,5,4520,7,8,1294,1543,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-160552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-defence","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-laura-perrins","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-tax","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-world","29":"tag-world-news","30":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}