David McWilliams

Yes, a rogue state.

With hard eyes.

No, that Ireland becomes the state that is most identified with corporate malfeasance.

It is not good for us.

to have a large American multinational pay twice the amount of tax here than it does in America.

This is not good for us on any metric.

Because if we're trying to pretend or argue that we are not in some way a tax laundering country,

It's a little bit like, it's all right robbing a little bit, but don't rob a lot.

You know, that people don't mind what they can't really feel or see.

But if you're involving yourself in wholesale... Like double, double.

Yeah, but it's not only double.

It's double what you pay in America.

We have 5 million people.

Taxes should reflect populations as a general rule.

They have 340 million people.

We know that their entire MAGA industrial strategy is identifying countries that they feel are playing the game unfairly.

And we are playing the game unfairly.

Not only we're giving them two fingers and we're al fresco involved in tax manipulation.

Right?

So I think that's my first concern is that because what you basically have, John, is...