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Are you going to pay the household charge? [Part 1]

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Izzy Skint wrote: »
    BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !
    BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
    BAAAA BAAAAA BAAAAA!!!

    think i will get a slap up indian take away tonight... wooohoooo!!!

    thanks for paying sheep :)) BAAAAA!
    * backs away slowly *


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Latest bulletin from la-la land:
    60% have not registered -

    terrible result for the anti household tax campaign.

    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    How is that a terrible result?

    Nate
    Sionach wrote: »
    I thought 40% was less then 60%!
    How is this a terrible result if the majority haven't paid?


    Clutching.
    At.
    Straws.


    That is all.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Helix wrote: »
    you don't need a car, you do need a home

    You do if you live in many rural areas - it's the lack of local services like public transport and the like ;).


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,492 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Austo77 wrote: »
    Only motorists pay motor tax.

    Bull**** answer. Nearly everyone lives in a house but only owners are charged this tax.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Clutching.
    At.
    Straws.


    That is all.

    Would that be 60% or 40% of straws being clutched at?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    lugha wrote: »
    Well I think there are a number of diverse reasons why people think this tax is wrong. But the point I make here is that double taxation isn’t one of them, or at least double taxation is not the best description of the argument being put. It is more an argument that the tax is not fair.

    Any other section? Well let’s see. Motorists pay tax which far exceeds the cost of maintaining the road network. And the excess monies they pay is a tax that nobody else has to pay. Is that not discriminatory?

    You don't have to own a car.
    You have to live somewhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Sionach wrote: »
    I thought 40% was less then 60%!
    How is this a terrible result if the majority haven't paid?

    Because there's no chance of the charge being scrapped now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,492 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    lividduck wrote: »
    How are the elected government an illigitmate regime?
    Muppets..certainly
    At odds with public opinion..definitley
    But an Illigitamate regime?, please!

    Because they lied and made false promises to get there. Bought votes in other words. No better than Bertie or Pee Flynn in my opinion. I hate liars.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    It seems that very few who have waivers are registering, which if anything is pushing the compliance % down.

    Still, over 40% have registered and the deadline is still 7 hours away!

    Terrible result for the anti household tax campaign.

    60% not registering is a terrible result????


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    40% of €160 million would pay for 35% of the extra interest on the additional debt Baldy Noonan secured for us in Europe yesterday. :cool:

    That's why it's a big success for the Blueshirts :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    60% not registering is a terrible result????

    It is - for the Regime - but "denial" isn't just a river in Egypt as the saying goes :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,492 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    It seems that very few who have waivers are registering, which if anything is pushing the compliance % down.

    Still, over 40% have registered and the deadline is still 7 hours away!

    Terrible result for the anti household tax campaign.

    ONE MILLION have failed to register. 1,000,000 households.
    Only 600,000 have registered, many exempt. AND even those have been manipulated i'd safely say.
    You boys failed.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Sionach wrote: »
    I thought 40% was less then 60%!
    How is this a terrible result if the majority haven't paid?

    If you get less that 40% on an exam, you certainly have failed! :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    Bull**** answer. Nearly everyone lives in a house but only owners are charged this tax.
    The argument was that this house hold charge is discriminatory because, as you say, only owners and not necessarily occupiers will pay.

    But only motorists contribute to the pool of tax that remains when the cost of maintaining the road network is taken out. So this is every bit as much discriminatory against motorists as the household charge is against owners. No?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    Helix wrote: »
    you don't need a car, you do need a home

    you dont need a home - get real, ever hear of renting?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    Because there's no chance of the charge being scrapped now.

    So, they'll spend more chasing the 60% than they'll take in.
    Sounds about right!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Because there's no chance of the charge being scrapped now.

    Lol.

    Again, Francis cannot hide his glee that a new charge might be brought in, and he will have to pay more money on something?

    Your the only person I've ever met that would be happy to pay extra taxes?

    Do you actually realise how silly your coming across in your posts:rolleyes:?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    You don't have to own a car.
    You have to live somewhere.
    Irrelevant to your discriminatory claim. And of course that discrimination is precisely what allows you to live somewhere and not pay the charge.


  • Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Izzy Skint wrote: »
    BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !
    BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
    BAAAA BAAAAA BAAAAA!!!

    think i will get a slap up indian take away tonight... wooohoooo!!!

    thanks for paying sheep :)) BAAAAA!


    Mod

    Baaaaaaanned. Flaming etc.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    you dont need a home - get real, ever hear of renting?

    Ok, so, coming from a mod.

    To avoid paying a property tax.


    Sell your house, then rent?


    Pass the doobie when your finished kind sir:P


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,492 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    lugha wrote: »
    The argument was that this house hold charge is discriminatory because, as you say, only owners and not necessarily occupiers will pay.

    But only motorists contribute to the pool of tax that remains when the cost of maintaining the road network is taken out. So this is every bit as much discriminatory against motorists as the household charge is against owners. No?

    No it isn't.
    If I am a motorist i would expect to pay Motor Tax.
    If I was a home owner I would also expect ALL home owners to have to pay.
    If only half the road users had to pay Road Tax would you object ?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Because there's no chance of the charge being scrapped now.

    After the next election (when this Regime is still be struggling to collect this extortion) a new democratic Government will revoke all penalties associated with this illegitimate tax, abolish it and cancel the "debt" of anyone who hasn't paid.

    The saps who buckled and paid can expect no such respite.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    ONE MILLION have failed to register. 1,000,000 households.
    Only 600,000 have registered, many exempt. AND even those have been manipulated i'd safely say.
    You boys failed.

    Remember when Tayto.....

    Well i'd say 14% is an exaggeration. I don't know anyone who paid it.


    Do you look back in fondness?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    60% not registering is a terrible result????
    Could we not apply the same logic to say that 5,000 people (lets be generous and assume they are all home owners) turned out to protest today, so 1,595,000 did not?

    If 40% is bad, what is 3%? :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,492 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    you dont need a home - get real, ever hear of renting?

    Another mad post. Do you expect people to sell up and rent ?
    If so who would they sell to ?
    People bought their homes and paid Stamp Duty even some F.G. people are now saying it's double tax for homeowners.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Ok, so, coming from a mod.

    To avoid paying a property tax.


    Sell your house, then rent?


    Pass the doobie when your finished kind sir:P

    What does it matter that it's a mod?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    you dont need a home - get real, ever hear of renting?
    Sure we'll all sell up and rent then.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Lol.

    Again, Francis cannot hide his glee that a new charge might be brought in, and he will have to pay more money on something?

    Your the only person I've ever met that would be happy to pay extra taxes?

    Do you actually realise how silly your coming across in your posts:rolleyes:?

    It's silly to desire a stable and sustainable tax base to get us out of the mess we're in? No-one's 'happy' to pay taxes, but some of us accept that it's a 'good' thing to do so in the face of the alternatives.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 51,492 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Remember when Tayto.....





    Do you look back in fondness?

    With all the scaremongering the PRO side did I didn't expect ONE MILLION (probably even more if truth were told) not to register and not to pay in fairness.


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