Dan Rooney warns Irish government not to cut corporation tax rate

This is the same Dan Rooney, who plays in a statium bought by the citizens of Pittsburgh. The Steelers are worth $1 Billion, and I have to pay for their statium. Of course Rooney argued that the Steelers brought jobs to Pittsburgh. Would have low corporate tax rate bring jobs to Ireland? Ireland keep your corporate tax rate low, and attract business. Because business means employers, and employers mean jobs for Irish. Pittsburgh at one time was the job capital of the USA. We lost half of our population after the mills closed down. What is the difference between low taxes, and giving the Rooneys a statium.

Try to get it right please. You title the article that Rooney suggests don't cut the tax rate but the article indicates he suggests don't increase the tax rate. Now we know what any businessman would suggest, keep corporate taxes low, wages low and keep unions the hell out!

Multinationals have taken jobs out of the US as well as Europe. Merck has announced it plans to layoff 13,000 in the US by 2015, while adding in places like S. Korea. Some suggest allowing these corporations to bring overseas profits back w/o taxes.

Is it really such a bad thing to let go over subsidised and under taxed pretentious American Corporations from Ireland. Firstly it save a huge amount of money and then traitorous Irish Politicians would be forced to invest in the Irish People and fill the gap. I vote we increase they corporation tax and try a different way of life, that pretentious American Corporations pay their own way and work with customers and not politicians.

One has to hope that even the dumbest of the Irish politicians know that the ONLY REASON multinationals do business in Ireland is because of the 12.5% tax rate. We like to think that they're drawn to our Irishness, our education our command of the English language. They're not as recent pull-out to China and Poland has demonstrated.