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"The European Union’s top five economies are warning the United States that its massive tax overhaul could violate some of its international obligations and risks having “a major distortive impact” on trade."

Yet they are just fine with EU member Ireland's tax laws? Welcome to the Trump era, where we will withdraw from treaties that screw us over as we see fit. FUEU.

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Actually, they aren’t just fine with Ireland’s tax laws; they’ve been trying to twist Ireland’s arm for quite a few years to “harmonize” their tax rates with the bigger EU countries (i.e. raise them to match Germany’s, so that Ireland’s competitive edge is utterly lost).

Now if Ireland’s current politicians were not slavish EU-crats, then a bilateral trade agreement with the US would benefit their country far more than their EU membership and may even wake up the people out of their apathy.