Ireland is too poor to afford Irish unification

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Ireland is an optimistic country and the harsh lessons appear to have been forgotten, but the economic statistics are being distorted by a reliance on multinational firms (which pay 80 per cent of corporation tax).
56% : He warned that tax levels would soar in the south to match the substantially higher public spending northerners were accustomed to.
52% : The late Gerry Fitt, the leader of constitutional nationalism - who with his family was driven out of Belfast by IRA supporters in the early 1980s and became a stalwart in the House of Lords - explained Sinn Fein policy as an instruction to the British "to f--- off and leave your wallet on the mantelpiece".
51% : They don't want tax increases and they are reluctant to woo unionists even with a gesture like joining the Commonwealth.
44% : Northern Ireland was impoverished by the destruction of the Troubles and the sectarian and political mistrust that continues in the aftermath.
32% : With the United States and EU threatening the tax policies that so attracted them, the exit of these firms would cause immense damage.

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