{"id":34512,"date":"2016-08-31T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=34512"},"modified":"2016-08-31T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:03:12","slug":"ireland-could-wipe-out-child-poverty-for-a-decade-with-apples-tax-bill-and-doesnt-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/31\/ireland-could-wipe-out-child-poverty-for-a-decade-with-apples-tax-bill-and-doesnt-want-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland could wipe out child poverty for a decade with Apple&#8217;s tax bill, and doesn&#8217;t want to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most telling comments on the Apple tax case came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/we-should-collect-apple-s-13-billion-and-change-ireland-1.2773136\">from Fintan O'Toole yesterday<\/a>. As he pointed out Iteland could eradicate child poverty for a decade with the \u00e2\u201a\u00ac13 billion of tax it now owes.<\/p>\n<p>And its politicians don't want to do that.<\/p>\n<p>If that is not a definition of corruption I am not sure what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most telling comments on the Apple tax case came from Fintan O&#8217;Toole yesterday. As he pointed out Iteland could eradicate child poverty<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/31\/ireland-could-wipe-out-child-poverty-for-a-decade-with-apples-tax-bill-and-doesnt-want-to\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}