Aug 13
In these times of reducing revenues for the Government it is somewhat questionable whether or not we really need to spend €10,000,000 of taxpayers money on their acquisition. Especially, as this is the same amount that is required to keep the ward in Crumlins Children’s Hospital open. Somehow, I think if the people of Ireland had a choice, the new vehicles could wait a tear or two ?
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Jul 17
he government are proposing to reduce public expenditure by 5 billion this year. Far be it from us to interfere in their eight week holiday, so we are going to have to wait until December before they start implementing any of the required cuts. Between now and then, this means that we will have to borrow an additional €8,125,000,000! Can somebody please tell me why we have to wait until December to have a budget?
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Feb 27
Well, I certainly hope so. I was just listening to Pat Carey the government Chief Whip on the radio conceding that it may be necessary to implement a third taxation rate! My goodness, what an absolute stroke of genius. If you look at my previous post you will see that I have suggested not just a third tax rate or possibly 15 or 20 Incremental tax rates. Now it transpires that Labour have decided to support the same policy as have Fine Gael.
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Feb 25
The principle of a citizens financial contribution to the State in the form of income tax has since Roman times, been correlated to some degree with the persons ability to pay. Since the introduction of the quill and abacus, determining one persons ability relative to another has been defined and refined by successive governmental administrations. …
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Aug 10
Nama a good deal only for the banks’ shareholders
August 10, 2009
This short article by Karl Whelan, Professor of economics at UCD, makes it very obvious that we must reconsider the entire NAMA idea. The majority of the people elected the present Government to run the Country on our behalf and to be kind, it hasn’t be working out so well. Now they are about to orchestrate the biggest distortion of the free market ever and it will cost you personally (and each of your children) more than EUR15,000.
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