16 tax increases
- Reduce subsidies to gold-plated pensions by reducing the earnings limit and reducing the Standard Fund Threshold to €1.2 million €494 million
So there's a taxable base of €9bn assumed here.Introduce a 5% high income levy on individual incomes above €140,000 €452 million
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support.What a load of populist tripe. They really are the lowest of the low. People need to educate themselves as the good ship Ireland is heading for the rocks with these jokers in charge.
Gold-plated pensions - does this include the civil servant gold-plated pensions or just the few DB pensions in the private sector?
Once in power they will probably turn into a (hopefully slightly less corrupt and somewhat more competent) version of FF. I wouldn't pay too much attention to their economic programme as it doesn't stem from any kind of real ideological committment.
I take your point regarding SF which is why I would not vote for them. It would be great if there was a third party with a realistic chance of forming the next government but there isn't. So the alternative is between flawed SF and FG on whose watch rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Dublin has risen to 2000 Euro and which has knowingly condemned a generation to squalor, exploitation and despair in order to drive up property prices & enrich its cronies. It's a grim choice between a party with an ambivalent stance on the rule of law and a party that created one of the gravest social catastrophes in post-war Western Europe.
That’s the type of logic that got Kang elected US President ahead of Kodos and Ross Perot!I take your point regarding SF which is why I would not vote for them. It would be great if there was a third party with a realistic chance of forming the next government but there isn't. So the alternative is between flawed SF and FG on whose watch rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Dublin has risen to 2000 Euro and which has knowingly condemned a generation to squalor, exploitation and despair in order to drive up property prices & enrich its cronies. It's a grim choice between a party with an ambivalent stance on the rule of law and a party that created one of the gravest social catastrophes in post-war Western Europe.
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