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I'm going to go out on a limb and say lowering CT combined with EU membership probably did more for peace in ROI than any secret talks.
Young men tend to be less likely to take up arms when there are jobs and future that doesn't involve emigration.
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That's an assumption that lowering CT
1 was the best way to create jobs w/o too many side-effects (no expert can't judge that...)
2 significantly lowered emigration (still happening to this day...young people are still leaving ROI and NI :/ )But EU membership, definitely as it offers easy emigration if you can't find a job and the EU was instrumental in the Good Friday Agreement/gives lots of development cash back to ROI and NI, and gives NI a pot of money for peace.
JWestland
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-racism-immigrant-prejudice-major-factor-leave-vote-win-study-a7801676.html?amp
OK study of 417 people, so it's a reasonably small sample size and no more info provided, but my reaction is "Cpt obvious strikes again" :/
Oh yeah Apple pays f-all tax in Ireland, perhaps ROI is an model to study what happens when there is low corporation tax?
Tim Cook can get into the sea, slagging off the EU for interfering while ROI broke their own tax laws by giving them a sweet deal and then going "but we bring lots of jobs to Cork, poor us".
[never buys Apple stuff again]