Are you happy with VAT, DIRT, Motor Tax, PRSI, USC, CGT, Corporation Tax, Social Welfare rates, Capital Spending, Health Spending, Education Spending, the Croke Park agreement?
Whatever way you look at it, and people can come up with all the justifications they want for not paying it, each householder owes €2 a week on this particular tax. Everyone invidually wants more welfare or less tax and you can try defraud the system for personal benefit if that's what you want, but it is for selfish reasons and not for some higher cause.
It is utterly stupid to try assess the fairness of this charge in the context of the wider taxation/welfare regime let alone on its own.
The €100 will probably be the minimum for everyone in the ultimate regime. I've no doubt people with larger or more expensive houses will be asked to pay significantly more in the future.
We are in a democracy with a government elected at least once every 5 years. This time last year people argued it had been a whole 3.5 years since the last election and things had changed and popular opinion (as measured by media polls rather than the democratically accepted methods) meant the government had no mandate to govern. That was a load of bull then and to try undermine the democratic process by refusing to acknowlege the right of the government we voted in less than 10 months ago to legislate and raise taxation is nothing short of subversive.
Dail deputies who willingly break the law, or more importantly encourage others to, shoul be removed from office.