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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
It's like getting a parking ticket because one of your wheels touches the white line around your space. Yes that breaks the rules, you "should" get a ticket but if its say an arbitrary line next to a wall with no real space remaining and there is a big SUV on the other side that would block your exit (i.e. it's not causing anyone a problem) common sense would dictate not to bother.
The rules are there to try to stop stuff crossing into the EU that the EU doesn't want or wants to "tax" on entry and visa versa. Is there evidence of industries getting ready to do that and use the island of Ireland as a conduit? They should just let people get on with being people, let goods flow as they have always done, you should be able to spot outliers indicating something odd happening and deal with that. People on either side of the border travelling to buy stuff at better prices really isn't going to hurt either economy and the cost of policing would likely outweigh any income you'd gain.
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Even with all the nonsense from the EU and Ireland(who are the main drivers of it), people and businesses would be able to freely move items from the cheaper side of the border. If an item is cheaper in NI, there is nothing to stop somebody moving it to Ireland and selling it. The only thing that would prevent that, is if the item in NI was made artificially more expensive by having a load of nonsense rules applied to it, and guess what is going on.
