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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not denying facts. I live in the place.
I'm pointing out some of the well-known economic issues. Fun fact... That's kind of my job. No I and others have been polite to you to suggest this things are not as simple as you suggest so please return the politeness

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 11h

Yes this is something about which we are quite aware. Multinationals however tend to have multi-billion investments and don't just ubsticks chasing marginal tax changes.
We already increased our taxes and didn't see any major changes.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 11h

the tax issue may have been part of it in the past but now its much much more ecosystem+education+eu base

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 11h

Sigh
No. OECD cant set tax rates. Irelands effective corporate tax rate is not especially low or out of line with others. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Corporate Tax Statistics 2024

Corporate Tax Statistics is an OECD flagship publication on corporate income tax, and includes information on corporate taxation, MNE activity, and base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) practices.

www.oecd.org

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 12h

Irelands GDP is ....buggy. Other comparison metrics are more meaningful. Overall, Ireland is about the same as UK overall BUT that is dragged up by London and SE

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 12h

There's no guarantee Scotland would be in the EU. Almost certainty it would require a significant amount of work. It's going to take years..
And I doubt if GDP would double.
Plus it would only have as a proportion if you didn't add any more debt which given the deficit you run...

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 12h

The last time the UK broke up was in 1921. You might want to have a look at what happened then. Because that's the pattern. This is not how it works.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 12h

Ireland was in a effective currency union, with the Irish punt fully backed by Sterling, from 1922 to 1979. We suffered serious devaluations and currency instability until we join the exchange rate mechanism.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 12h

It's a tiny bit more difficult than that.
If you created a Scottish let's call it shilling, it would immediately suffer a massive devaluation. Good for Scottish whiskey and oil, very very bad for imports.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 18h

I doubt that very much. This is a human thing.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 18h

If you haven't noticed, the Republicans don't care and the Democrats don't act

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 18h

The American opposition has been astoundingly quiet. I suspect that if the union of French second level school librarians was to organize opposition it would be far more effective than this

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 18h

In business and management the UTD24, a list of 24 journals that somewhere along the way the University of Texas at Dallas put out, is seen as the most gold standard.
Honestly, when academia put US academia on the altar it was a grave grave mistake.

Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 1d

"Faculty members are uncertain whether discussing scientifically-accepted concepts in their disciplines, such as biological intersex conditions, historical gender systems in various cultures, or legal frameworks governing sex discrimination, could result in termination." #TXHigherEd #AcademicBluesky

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 18h

The currency issue is the impossible trilemma.
This has been explained to Scottish politicians for decades but they are unable to come up with a coherent plan to explain this to the voters

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 18h

Yes.
Did you expect anything else? Many are quite happy with this. Others are absolutely precarious and will not put their head above the parapet.
Most university leaders are a politicians and well...

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah maybe. But you've got to get that whole we're independent thing going. I mean we did it. 100 years ago. Take your time.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 19h

And the opposition is doing what? Is it thoughts and prayers? Because that worked so well for school violence

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 19h

Looking at the screaming mess of insanity that passes for UK politics, there is zero chance of the EU ever letting you guys within an asses roar of joining.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 19h

Which is wonderful. But it's going to have absolutely as much effect on stopping authoritarianism in the United States as thoughts and prayers did for stopping your epidemic of school violence. You need to think outside the box that you're in

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 19h

The academics, of whom I am one, are absolutely not going to save America from itself.
There is no situation in history where the academics have done this. Most often their leaders, academics themselves, have jumped on board the fascist train

Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 1d

"Faculty members are uncertain whether discussing scientifically-accepted concepts in their disciplines, such as biological intersex conditions, historical gender systems in various cultures, or legal frameworks governing sex discrimination, could result in termination." #TXHigherEd #AcademicBluesky

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...

AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship

Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University. The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...

aaup-texas.org

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 1d

The UK .
Don't you recall the debate about breaking laws in a limited and specific way?

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 1d

It seems like they didn't bother to actually talk to any of the other parties the agreement.
This is English exceptionalism once more come up, to believe that if Johnny Foreigner doesn't like it he'll just have to lump it hey what

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 1d

UK is a country that said it was going to set out to deliberately and specifically break international law for its own domestic political party political ambitions. And you think that makes you a trustworthy partner ever again?

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky folk.
Of what popular TV series have you never seen a single episode nor have any desire to?
For me, it's The Traitors....

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Brian Lucey @brianmlucey.bsky.social · 1d

I love the idea that they're a great fan of performing theater and never heard of Godot

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