What specific tax breaks are you referring to? How do tax breaks pay their fair share of tax?
Nothing made up there. The words are part of the communist manifesto. That is fact. As for their meaning, perhaps you would care to enlighten us as to the meaning of the words?
I didn't suggest the state drill for oil anywhere in my post.
Tax breaks are income foregone to the state. Some will argue that the economic activity would not have happened without the tax break. However, it is very, very hard to see any justification for the state subsidies given to the property industry, the horse-racing industry and the private medical industry for a start - these are all big enough to stand on their own feet.
Purple's 'drug addict' scenario was indeed 'made up' and was indeed an extreme example. The meaning of the words is self-explanatory. Just read them.
I simply suggested that we should look at a system where once an individual has paid a certain amount of tax they stop paying. Get down off the socialist moral high-ground.
The words you quoted are from the communist manifesto.
You may have to have some handle on the issue of neo liberalism to understand the implication of my questionWho knows ?
Neo-Liberalism has had 8 years as the dominant political ideology in the USA but it was never all encompassing or anywhere near as extreme as Communism or fascism. It was never dominant in Europe or anywhere else in the world so I don't see how it can be described as the dominant ideology in a global context and certainly not in an Irish context.
That's a rather condescending answer.
I agree, lets get back on topic or kill it.