Not if you are a leading Leftist newspaper, anyway. Note this comment from the NYT about the economic boom in Ireland:
"The change began when Ireland entered the European Union in 1973. In subsequent years, the government rewrote its tax policies to attract foreign investment by American corporations, made all education free through the university level and changed tax rates and used direct equity investment to encourage Irish people to set up their own businesses.
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The dreaded word "cut" is nowhere to be found. Taxes were only "changed". Ireland in fact made huge tax cuts as a prelude to its present surge of prosperity.
