Letters to the Editor, January 22nd: On Trump and Ireland, and the art of the deal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : - Yours, etc, Sir, - In his inauguration speech Donald Trump invoked the phrase "manifest destiny" as a lynchpin of his "Make America Great Again" policies.
65% : Criticism of Israel and Zionism should not be equated with racism or anti-Jewish bigotry.
57% : Just as Irish ministers skirt transparency laws with artful ambiguity, US lawmakers have long buried earmarks within sprawling legislation, ensuring their constituents benefit while avoiding any explicit admission of a quid pro quo.
47% : One must not forget how concentrated those tax receipts are.
47% : We have three companies in Ireland that account for 43 per cent of corporation tax in 2022.
47% : We collected €23 billion of corporation tax in that year, and three companies accounted for €10 billion of that.
46% : The academic British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, in a detailed joint report with the European Legal Centre, analysed the effects of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism on higher education institutions in Britain, finding its impact detrimental in terms of undermining freedom of speech and academic freedom and producing unfounded accusations of anti-Semitism.
33% : One now wonders how long can Ireland depend on those taxes, now that Donald Trump is US president?

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