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Passports for Sale! (Clearance Sale?)

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  • 24-11-2010 9:22pm
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    later12
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    Well usually I think I would be one of the last people to suggest something like a passports for sale scheme.
    However, since our economic sovereignty has already taken quite the battering and the country looks like it will still be in the doldrums for the foreseeable future, why not take another swipe at Caitlín Ní Uallacháin - already in The Shadow of a Gunman.

    Yesterday the UK announced a plan to encourage so-called "wealth creators" into Britain, following on from similar schemes operated by Canada and Australia who have been chasing down these rich guys for years.

    Why not do the same here?
    And why not give even greater preferential treatment to those willing to start up in the R&D industry in this economy?

    There's clearly no constitutional barrier to this, because the last passport for sale scheme in The Republic of Ireland was suspended in 1996, before being abolished in 1998.

    Along with lowering corporation tax, and a re-introduction of tax free/ low tax status schemes like The Shannon Scheme, is the issue of passports for sale not something that this government ought to be seriously re-considering?
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