The thrust of my original query was really about what it is in us that makes us so tolerant of this parisitic behaviour? If I had someone working in my business who sat around all day and did no work while making no investment and taking no risk, but expected a share of the profits at year end, I would tell him where to get off. Yet we all do exactly the opposite every day as we struggle through traffic to put in a hard day at the office or factory, while the elite of the socail welfare system have a nice lie in and consider how best to spend the day.
Are we naive and tolerant, or are we stupid?
Every average Joe and Jane who bought a house before 1996 is in the position where they are asset rich. Any average Joe or Jane who has a house can now trade up. The proportion of the population that owns their home has never been higher. The average age of the first time buyer has never been lower.Ireland is apparently a quite unequal country, as many people have got wind fall profits from the rise in property...a million an acre is common for development land and usually the seller inherited the land. And the same with houses which are beyond the reach of the average wage earner even as the government have stopped building council houses.
I think that immigration has had the positive effect of reducing the rate of wage inflation but I don’t accept that it has caused a reduction in wages on any meaningful level.The incoming immigrants have displaced a lot of irish workers and employers have reduced wages for a lot of workers knowing that the irish could get welfare, and the immigrants would gladly accept the reduced working conditions.
I agree. I see no reason why we should not help those who need it in society without removing their dignity, even if this means that a proportion of those on welfare abuse the system. As for long term unemployed; as far as I am concerned this country failed a generation of it’s people in the 80’s and if the legacy of this is people in their 40’s and 50’s who are effectively unemployable then we should help them in whatever way we can.No doubt people with large families get generous welfare if the parents are unemployed....however this person must be looking for work and fullfill the conditions.
No one declares themselves non-resident for tax purposes. If they don’t live here they don’t pay tax here. Michael Smurfit is often cited as an example of what you describe above yet it is ignored that he has lived in the USA for about 20 years and pays his taxes there.What about the very rich people in this country, who manage to pay minimal taxes and others who make enormous money here and then declare themselves non resident for tax purposes.
I suggest that they are two separate issues and should be dealt with separately.I SUGGEST humbly that one reserves their wrath for the rich who use the tax laws to avoid paying even their fair share, instead of focussing on the
dole money of our 4% unemployed.
What about the very rich people in this country, who manage to pay minimal taxes and others who make enormous money here and then declare themselves non resident for tax purposes.
I SUGGEST humbly that one reserves their wrath for the rich who use the tax laws to avoid paying even their fair share, instead of focussing on the
dole money of our 4% unemployed.
So he doesn't live here so why should he pay tax here? The fact that he provides jobs here should be applauded. The income tax (or lack of same) that is charged in his country of residence is not our business. There are a couple of hundred thousand UK and US citizens living here. Do you think that they should not pay tax here?on the question of tax exiles ok so some pay taxes elsewhere. but some dont ie JP McManus is a resident of monaco. despite that large pile down in Limerick.
So even though he is able to work he chooses to go on the dole you see no problem with it and yet you reserve your ire for those that legally avoid tax?The fact that a man may be almost just as well off on welfare than on low wages ....well can you blame him for choosing welfare... especially if he maybe works part time or works a few months on and off.And to be quite honest i don`t see the harm in it.
Plenty of people - especially since one of the fundamental qualification criteria for receipt of UA/UB is that the individual is genuinely available for and seeking work and not that they just choose to work and go on the scratcher instead.IThe fact that a man may be almost just as well off on welfare than on low wages ....well can you blame him for choosing welfare...
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