Just a year after the conservative Heritage Foundation praised Ireland as having a wonderful conservative economic system, that system has crashed and burned!
It seems that Ireland was nuthin' more than a tax haven for American bidnesses to 'wash' profits and avoid American taxes. That set up benefitted Ireland not one bit. Also, Ireland attempted to fix it's faltering economy with the sort of austerity measures that make Republican hearts go all aflutter. These two factors screwed the Irish economy and taxpayers.
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