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and tu quoque is not much of an argument.
>Where, precisely, did I contend that?<
You did contend that in the same place where I contended that paying back the debt is sustainable growth.
So you think there was no neoliberal trend in irsih policies in last twenty years? They also tended to export neoliberal members of the commission.
gdp of course.
Source?
But it is relevant to your contention that Ireland was leading the race to the bottom on taxes.
So you think there was no neoliberal trend in irsih policies in last twenty years?
Uh, no.
There was a very definite neoliberal capture in the last ten years. The ten before that... not so much.
Which is, incidentally, a better record of resisting neoliberal brain rot than the SPD can boast.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
In the real world, Ireland and the rest of neoliberal countries opposed any attempts of SPD led German governments at regulation at the EU level. As far as I understand neoliberalism did take over in Ireland with the rise of the progressive democrats in the late eighties.
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