Would you pay higher income tax?

I would pay higher income tax in return for a reduction in other indirect taxes such as:

Road tax
VRT
Levy on petrol & diesel
Levy on credit cards
Road tolls
VAT on "luxury" goods - toilet roll & tampons a luxury??? Pur-lease

But we all know that that is never going to happen, so no, I won't be accepting a raise in income tax any time soon.

I wouldn't mind if I thought there was going to be some value there but there clearly isn't.

A lot of people doing nothing and a lot of incomptent people in the public service need to go and the government needs to realise that they don't have the right to shed loads of cash and huge expenses each year. Comparing them to private sector CEO's and the like is bullsh*t TBH. They are supposed to be doing it for their country and I don't think we get the brightest people in to be our politicians. If we did then sure pay them a top CEO's wages but since they are mostly incompetent muppets they should be paid accordingly.

Most importantly we have seen fook all for the money they did have so why would we assume this money is going to be put to better use? It'll be p*ssed away just like rest of it while the hospitals still fall apart, the HSE sit on their behinds, the regulators don't regulate, the national broadcaster wants to charge everyone a license fee and then make them buy a set top box to receive the channels, increasing number of toll roads, poor roads elsewhere, massive stealth taxes, massive rip off from retailers and price fixing going on with nobody stepping in, huge increase in cost of energy, poor public transport etc...

Why exactly would we give them money when they've had more than they knew what to do with for the past decade and didn't get a single one of these issues fixed.

so now the resession begins, there is less money to pay them fat cats in the government. their solution, sqeeze more money off the tax payers who are already struggeling with paying mortgages and ever increasing bills. Cheek. OVERTHROW them i tells ya:p

If I honestly and truely believed that paying a higher income tax would benefit the country I'd say absolutely 'Yes' go for it.

But I just can not for the life of me believe politicans and their bullsh*t party lines.

pickarooney wrote: »

OT, but what's this bit about?
Also, why are they called set-top boxes? You can't put anything on top of a modern TV.

Well you can call it what you like, it can sit under the tv too. I thought most people would be familiar with that term instead of a digital tv decoder or something like that.

Basically you pay your license fee each year but your going to have to buy a set top box from only Dennis O'Brien (at least so far) to watch RTE in Digital as they are going to switch off the analog service in a few years.

Daithi McGee wrote: »

I think it is even more worrying that our government thinks that kick starting the housing and construction industry is a bona fide solution

Depressing really.

Yep, FF over relied big time on the construction industry over the last few years. All their eggs in one basket, big mistake

So lets see: during the "boom" years. FF pissed the money away through incompetence and corruption.
There little friends the developers creamed the profits from the country and did a runner, IBEC (the new irish landlords) pulled out of talks as thier profits would be hit.

In return for piddling tax concessions, people got saddled with huge mortgages as greed took hold.

The infrastructure is still ****e, the health service is still ****e and education is down the tubes.
Now things have worsened, we are going to be expected to tighten our belts and be penalised and foot the bill.

LOL... do we have an option?

If people are still stupid enough to vote for these assholes then we get what we deserve