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Household Charge Mega-Thread [Part 2] *Poll Reset*

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  • #2
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    In before the 10000 post lock on this one!


  • #3
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    emo72 wrote: »
    no absolutely not. i dunno where you got idea from?

    keep borrowing we're screwed.

    don't borrow we're screwed.

    when we nationalised private debt, thats when it became game over. we ran out of choices that day. either the troika allow us to write off debt or.......we default. not arguing with anyone here, thats my view. it seems clear to me.


    So the econonmy can't afford to have €3.5bn taken out of it but it can afford to have €16bn over night? The country will pretty much be a write off if we had to do that tomorrow.


  • #4
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    cheeky mod, stealing the glory of the 10,000th post


  • #5
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Still no.


  • #6
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    Well done sam on getting the final post in part 1.


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  • #7
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    [Part 2]

    This is a continuation of this thread.

    No trolling or flaming or face a €100 fine.

    aaaannnnddddddddddd go.....

    This is the first time ever in AH a thread has reached 10000 posts. That's amazing. Should we do something to celebrate?


  • #8
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    And, we're off.......

    DON'T REGISTER / DON'T PAY


  • #9
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    the groutch wrote: »
    cheeky mod, stealing the glory of the 10,000th post

    Cheeky Mod - taking the wind out of my reply to Alistair :(

    Here it is anyways.....

    Also Al, the €90,000,000 extra in interest payments on the increased debt the brilliant Baldy Noonan just managed to negotiate in Brussels must now be paid for - so higher taxes all around.

    Excellent Turner cartoon in the IT today (I'm nearly surprised they published it) - we have Noonan descending from a plane, Chamberlain-style, holding a piece of paper saying

    "AUSTERITY NOW - PAY LATER"

    The pithiest summary of the illegitimate Regime's economic policies I've seen


  • #10
    jonon9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    What if this charge is dropped in the end what about all the people that paid the 100 euros do they get there money back?


  • #11
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    The thread poll figures are a little redundant now, I reckon.


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  • #12
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    Well done sam on getting the final post in part 1.

    Thanks Gerry, can I be exempt from paying?:p


  • #13
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    The postings have slowed now the 10,000th post target is gone.


  • #14
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    @KeithM89: What happened to the poll question? It has completely changed.


  • #15
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Seeing the old thread with 9999 posts gives me a massive unscratched itch of some kind.


  • #16
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    Yea, no fun now.
    Time for a chinky and a bottle of wine.
    All this protesting has me starving and thirsty.......:D


  • #17
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    dvpower wrote: »
    @KeithM89: What happened to the poll question? It has completely changed.

    Well since the deadline is practically up i thought past tense is more suited. Il change it back if ye wish.


  • #18
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    dvpower wrote: »
    @KeithM89: What happened to the poll question? It has completely changed.

    It got into government........


  • #19
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    Paid just to piss off the non payers


  • #20
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    Yea, no fun now.
    Time for a chinky and a bottle of wine.
    All this protesting has me starving and thirsty.......:D

    Aww. I was looking forward to hearing how regular teachers (ordinary PS workers) - who you don't blame for the excesses of the PS 'fat cats' - should lose their income for the duration of school holidays, but not in a 'blamey' fashion.


  • #21
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    Paid just to piss off the non payers

    Genius!


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  • #22
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    alastair wrote: »
    Aww. I was looking forward to hearing how regular teachers (ordinary PS workers) - who you don't blame for the excesses of the PS 'fat cats' - should lose their income for the duration of school holidays, but not in a 'blamey' fashion.

    What happened, did it take you 10 mins to find us?


  • #23
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    What happened, did it take you 10 mins to find us?

    Given that I've posted in this thread before you - no. I don't think so.


  • #24
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    alastair wrote: »
    Aww. I was looking forward to hearing how regular teachers (ordinary PS workers) - who you don't blame for the excesses of the PS 'fat cats' - should lose their income for the duration of school holidays, but not in a 'blamey' fashion.
    Actually what I suggested was that the half a billion in allowances should be cut out.
    Good enough for ya?
    Do you not think that the 'allowance culture/sense of entitlement culture' should be got rid of?


  • #25
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    Actually what I suggested was that the half a billion in allowances should be cut out.
    Good enough for ya?

    Hmm:
    Give them 4 weeks paid leave and 8 weeks unpaid.


  • #26
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Well since the deadline is practically up i thought past tense is more suited. Il change it back if ye wish.
    Meh. Meaningless figures anyway.

    But the deadline hasn't passed. A deadline has.
    People are still free to pay the tax and I reckon there are a lot of people out there that were willing to pay the €11 in interest and penanlties to give the government a bloody nose, but who have no intention of withholding payment in the long term.


  • #27
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    Paid just to piss off the non payers

    them sounds like fightin words!


  • #28
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    alastair wrote: »
    Aww. I was looking forward to hearing how regular teachers (ordinary PS workers) - who you don't blame for the excesses of the PS 'fat cats' - should lose their income for the duration of school holidays, but not in a 'blamey' fashion.

    There is no such thing as an 'ordinary' public sector worker. The preferential treatment afforded them is quite extraordinary and borders on the discriminations towards the rest of us - who are expected to pick up the tab for their gravy train.


  • #29
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No.
    Didn't register nor pay.

    ...Either did my sister (a council office worker) or my old parents either,


  • #30
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    dvpower wrote: »
    Meh. Meaningless figures anyway.

    But the deadline hasn't passed. A deadline has.
    People are still free to pay the tax and I reckon there are a lot of people out there that were willing to pay the €11 in interest and penanlties to give the government a bloody nose, but who have no intention of withholding payment in the long term.

    Maybe you should get a job as a clairvoyant.:rolleyes:


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  • #31
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    There is no such thing as an 'ordinary' public sector worker. The preferential treatment afforded them is quite extraordinary and borders on the discriminations towards the rest of us - who are expected to pick up the tab for their gravy train.

    That'll be another vote for taking wages away from teachers during school holidays then?


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