They say "Taxation Without Representation."

VOA: special.2009.03.20

"Ireland's traditional vote bearers of family law, neutrality,and taxation the Irish received legal guarantees that nothing would affect their prerogatives in those areas,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

"The recommendations are very clear." "For a country like Greece, you need to act on the fiscal side, and therefore addressing very forcefully the root causes of your fiscal problems through spending cuts and increasing taxation."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Also that Ireland would lose its veto over taxation, over its abortion policy, and that the country would no longer have a right to nominate a commissioner to the European Commission, which is the EU's kind of chief legislative body,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02