Its all back to the drawing board for Fiana Fail.

Run_to_da_hills

The Fiana Fail Government have screwed up big time over the abolishment of the automatic medical card for the over 70ies. Lenahan, Brian Cowen and Mary Harney are all scratching their heads wondering what to do next.

Its back to the drawing board to find another source to raise this 100 Million shortfall.

We as the people of Ireland must help the Government recoup this serious shortfall by suggesting some sensible alternative revenue sources.

Here are just a few………..

A €5 license for domestic cats.
A levy of 20c for taking a cr*p in a jacks at work, public place or restaurant
A €5 fine for screaming babies in a public place,
A €100 Fine for nuisance alarms that exceed 15 minutes.
A €50 fine for having the a wheelybin out on the wrong day. :eek:
A wheelchair levy of €10 per chair and €20 for power assisted.
A flat rate of €2 for using disability parking spaces.
A Charge on cars crossing the M50 toll plaza based on their engine size. :eek:


Any more suggestions?

aidan_walsh

Donate a national ID scheme?

Crash

A levy for every time someone screams "i'm being opressed, my civil rights, gimme back my civil rights!!"

it'd either make a load of money, or shut SOME people up a wee bit.

Dodgykeeper

2c levy on each emoticon used!

brianthebard

FF have a drawing board???

Run_to_da_hills

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

A €100 Fine for nuisance alarms that exceed 15 minutes.

i like this one.

marco_polo

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

2c levy on each emoticon used!

That would bankrupt J_C

ninty9er

brianthebard wrote: »

FF have a drawing board???

I've seen it. It's big and gets wiped down every evening before the Sec Gen leaves Mount Street:pac:

Captain Darling

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The Fianna Fail Government have screwed up big time over the abolishment of the automatic medical card for the over 70ies. Lenahan, Brian Cowen and Mary Harney are all scratching their heads wondering what to do next.

Its back to the drawing board to find another source to raise this 100 Million shortfall.

We as the people of Ireland must help the Government recoup this serious shortfall by suggesting some sensible alternative revenue sources.

Here are just a few………..

A €5 license for domestic cats.
A levy of 20c for taking a cr*p in a jacks at work, public place or restaurant
A €5 fine for screaming babies in a public place,
A €100 Fine for nuisance alarms that exceed 15 minutes.
A €50 fine for having the a wheelybin out on the wrong day. :eek:
Charging cars across the M50 toll plaza by their engine size. :eek:


Any more suggestions?

They need our commitment and you need to be committed.

Sharpshooter

How about a million euro fine for misspelling Fiana Fail?
Sorted;)./Run to da hills.

Run_to_da_hills

sharpshooterH wrote: »

How about a million euro fine for misspelling Fiana Fail?
Sorted;)./Run to da hills.

I changed it but they still have it on record for the next five years under the data retention act :eek:

Sharpshooter

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I changed it but they still have it on record for five years under the data retention act :eek:

"Run (to da) Run."

Mena

brianthebard wrote: »

FF have a drawing board???

Yeah, here it is. Click me!

javaboy

Levy on anyone who says Yore Ma where it's not funny.
Levy on anyone who says I for one welcome etc.
Levy on posts from Run to da Hills that mention National ID cards or RFID.
Levy on Tzipi Livni

Levy on use of the word recession.


We should be fine then. Might even have a little left over for an end of year Christmas party or something.

Wurly

Smash those fcuking E voting machines to smithereens using only the heads of the two Brian's!

Problem(s) solved. Two d1cks, one stone!

Run_to_da_hills

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Donate a national ID scheme?

Don't' even mention the National ID.


It will creep into the country disguised as a reusable chipped "Lotto" card some day when the National Lottery reaches over €20,000,000.

The whole country will rush out to buy them.

Alessandra

Make us all pay our t.v license that should raise a few million for them..

Savman

Ebay. Spire. There's €4m already.

heyjude

Sell the government jets

Sell the ministerial Mercs and force ministers to use public transport(bet it would improve then)

Put the garda drivers currently driving ministerial Mercs back to work as gardai

Ban ministers from using aircorp helicopters on domestic flights

Close the Dail bar(there are plenty of city centre bars nearby)

Introduce a €100 per passenger levy on private planes departing from Irish airports(if they can afford a private plane, they afford this too and it would get a few bob from the tax exiles)

Introduce €100 levy for every time a policticians photo appears in the national newspapers(admittedly this would have been a bigger earner when Bertie was Taioseach) and it would reward politicians that are either too ugly or (and this is a rarity) have nothing to say.

And this could be a huge earner, a levy for everytime a politician uses the word "but" in a radio/tv interview (you know the sort, "I'd love to do something about hospital overcrowding/crime/unemployment/whatever........But..."

Run_to_da_hills

The Government will soon need a National Debt clock. :eek:

They can resurrect this again to save themselves on a few bob.

http://kimmixa.googlepages.com/Chime.jpg/Chime-full.jpg

Dord

Sell RTE, they could make a bit from that. It can't get any worse anyways.

Run_to_da_hills

Dord wrote: »

Sell RTE, they could make a bit from that. It can't get any worse anyways.

That wouldn't work, they would have to pay someone to take RTE away.

Quazzie

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

A €5 license for domestic cats.

Ya'd make about a million in my area alone with that idea.

How about a levy on obesity and that'd get some serious bucks off Biffo and Harney.

SEPT 23 1989

€100 tax on man u and celtic jerseys
€1000 vrt increase for all white jap import cars
€10 tax on all baseball caps
€10 tax on all Ben Shurtman clothes
increase the price of a pint bottle of bulmuss by a fiver

Archeron

How about 60% income tax on all Leprechauns?
Little feckers sitting around all day on their big pots o' gold, and they never share it with anyone, no matter how long you follow them or how hard you strangle them.

And if we're going down that route, we could also introduce a 200% tax on Banshee combs and higher parking charges for the Four Horsemen of the Apocolpyse, who I imagine we're gonna see a lot more of soon.

javaboy

Archeron wrote: »

How about 60% income tax on all Leprechauns?
Little feckers sitting around all day on their big pots o' gold, and they never share it with anyone, no matter how long you follow them or how hard you strangle them.

Leprechauns don't have an income. They just have massive savings. They don't keep it in a bank so there's no interest to provide them with an income. You didn't really think this through.

We should encourage them to put their savings in a long term deposit account. Even after DIRT they would be making decent money in interest. An ad campaign is what we need.

Cookie_Monster

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

A €5 license for domestic cats.
A €5 fine for screaming babies in a public place,
A wheelchair levy of €10 per chair and €20 for power assisted.
A flat rate of €2 for using disability parking spaces.

+1

€10 charge to cross the border for your shoppin
€100 for a kid license
Save money buy buying non-low floor buses again

Run_to_da_hills

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

+1

€10 charge to cross the border for your shoppin
€100 for a kid license
Save money buy buying non-low floor buses again

We would want to be very careful these guys could take us up on these measures. :eek:

weeder

javaboy wrote: »

Levy on anyone who says Yore Ma where it's not funny.
Levy on anyone who says I for one welcome etc.
Levy on posts from Run to da Hills that mention National ID cards or RFID.
Levy on Tzipi Livni

Levy on use of the word recession.


We should be fine then. Might even have a little left over for an end of year Christmas party or something.

I for one welcome our new poor money grabbing overlordsbecause this recession is rightly terrible :pac::pac::pac::pac:

Cookie_Monster

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

We would want to be very careful these guys could take us up on these measures.

The kids one would be a good one the others not so much:pac:
People who have kids should be taxed more, not less. Encourage population control and all that. Might even make scumbags less prolific as the breeding would be cut back:D

I can see some form of cross border nonesense coming in as "the state is concerned about the levels of lost income as a result of consumers travelling north"

galwayrush

brianthebard wrote: »

FF have a drawing board???

Yes. it#s a 2 ft x 2 ft piece of chipboard, and it cost the (Taxpayers) Board of Works 25,000 euro.:D
Well, some Minister managed to pay 14 K for a 500 euro valued set of curtains,

Cookie_Monster

galwayrush wrote: »

Well, some Minister managed to pay 14 K for a 500 euro valued set of curtains,

WFT:eek:

galwayrush

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

WFT:eek:

Well, 500 eoros valuation might be slightly off, but Noel Donoghue's office managed to spend 14 K on curtains for 2 windows a few months ago, figueres released by the Board of Works, apparently a 450 sq ft Tuck Shop at the Dail has gone over the 1 Million mark.:mad:

Nehaxak

Can't believe there's 3 pages of responses here and not one person mentioned a masturbation tax.
Sure you'd make a fortune with the amount of **** in Leinster house.

Prof.Badass

legalise and tax it.

yes, that's right, i'm talking about necrophilia.

Piste

Mandatory pre AND post-natal abortions for all.




All.

javaboy

Piste wrote: »

Mandatory pre AND post-natal abortions for all.

That looks familiar. Didn't someone incredibly handsome have that in their sig a while back?

Piste

They may have >_>

AlmightyCushion

javaboy wrote: »

That looks familiar. Didn't someone incredibly handsome have that in their sig a while back?

I never had that in my sig.

randylonghorn

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

A €100 Fine for nuisance alarms that exceed 15 minutes.

Deleted User wrote: »

i like this one.

So do I!

Nehaxak wrote: »

Can't believe there's 3 pages of responses here and not one person mentioned a masturbation tax.

Ah here ... I pay enough bloody tax!!

dr.bollocko

I know what you mean.

ninebeanrows

Looks like the government is coming under severe pressure this evening!

With a bit of luck who knows, we could finally be relieved of this gang.:eek::D

Run_to_da_hills

Weathercheck wrote: »

Looks like the government is coming under severe pressure this evening!

With a bit of luck who knows, we could finally be relieved of this gang.:eek::D

May be they can read this thread and get some good advice :eek:

I actually feel sorry for these guys in FF, its a no win situation. If they go ahead and introduce cat licenses the old ones will still be up in arms because most old ones keep cats.

http://thinkguacamole.com/images/CatHoard.jpg

mumhaabu

Legalise Cocaine, Cannabis and Prostitution*, tax it at 50% giving the state 50% of a previous criminal activity regulate it too. Money from one set of criminals to another, (I wonder who are worse). It would also lead to less actual crime as it would be legal and no need for violence.

*Prostitution could be done for real though

phantom_lord

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The Fiana Fail Government have screwed up big time over the abolishment of the automatic medical card for the over 70ies. Lenahan, Brian Cowen and Mary Harney are all scratching their heads wondering what to do next.

Its back to the drawing board to find another source to raise this 100 Million shortfall.

We as the people of Ireland must help the Government recoup this serious shortfall by suggesting some sensible alternative revenue sources.

Here are just a few………..

A €5 license for domestic cats.
A levy of 20c for taking a cr*p in a jacks at work, public place or restaurant
A €5 fine for screaming babies in a public place,
A €100 Fine for nuisance alarms that exceed 15 minutes.
A €50 fine for having the a wheelybin out on the wrong day. :eek:
A wheelchair levy of €10 per chair and €20 for power assisted.
A flat rate of €2 for using disability parking spaces.
A Charge on cars crossing the M50 toll plaza based on their engine size. :eek:


Any more suggestions?

am i the only one that thinks they came up with that scheme knowing there'd be uproar, only to renounce it a few days later, and so would distract people from everything else in the budget?

javaboy

phantom_lord wrote: »

am i the only one that thinks they came up with that scheme knowing there'd be uproar, only to renounce it a few days later, and so would distract people from everything else in the budget?

If that was really the plan, the backbenchers wouldn't be stirring things up the way they are now. Even Fianna Fail aren't stupid enough to try a plan like that. If the rumblings from the Green Party develop into something more than mild indigestion and another few backbenchers go the way of Behan, this could be like the children's shoe tax all over again.

mickos

phantom_lord wrote: »

am i the only one that thinks they came up with that scheme knowing there'd be uproar, only to renounce it a few days later, and so would distract people from everything else in the budget?

I was thinking the same today. The aul 1's are on Joe Duffy ranting & raving, surely the goverment had to know that would happen. I reckon they're clearing out our bank accounts and making for the Caymens while we're not lookin!

Run_to_da_hills

phantom_lord wrote: »

am i the only one that thinks they came up with that scheme knowing there'd be uproar, only to renounce it a few days later, and so would distract people from everything else in the budget?

I believe that this could have been intentional. The Governmemt were hoping for an uproar and got it. They also brought it to the attention of the public of the GPs milking the system with excessive charges.

The GPs are also sh*tting themselves that they may loose this cash cow and may have to submit to a deal to lower their charges, the drug companies might have to do same.

Apparently old ones are charged a lot more per medical card visit than anyone else under 70 with the exact same card.

Hopefully an agreement can be sorted out soon to keep the old ones happy again.

randylonghorn

javaboy wrote: »

If that was really the plan, the backbenchers wouldn't be stirring things up the way they are now. Even Fianna Fail aren't stupid enough to try a plan like that.

Aye, I agree.

Nearly ... but not quite!

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I believe that this could have been intentional. The Governmemt were hoping for an uproar and got it. They also brought to the attention of the public the rip off charges that the GPs have been milking off the system.

'Tis a good theory, but if that was really the plan, you would think they would have given some hint to their back-benchers, even after the fact, to stop them jumping ship?

Shmuck

There will be an uproar if they decide not to means test people over 70's after all, I reckon there will be riots on the streets of Dublin. This is such an obvious and logical thing to do and should of been done years ago. If old people can easily afford medical care then we shouldn't be giving it to them for free. I will never vote for FF again if they go back on this.

Run_to_da_hills

Shmuck wrote: »

There will be an uproar if they decide not to means test people over 70 after all, I reckon there will be riots on the streets of Dublin. This is such an obvious and logical thing to do and should of been done years ago. If old people can easily afford medical care then we shouldn't be giving it to them for free. I will never vote for FF again if they go back on this.

You can't give candy to a kid and take it back off them again. :mad: