McWilliams at it again

MysticalRain

JimiTime wrote: »

But why would you leave? Have you not got a job? or is it just simply anger that you may have an increase in tax that you'd upsticks? I fail to see the logic above, maybe you could clarify.

I have a job...for the moment anyway. I don't have a problem with paying high taxes, provided the money I give to the government is well spent. I mentioned that I felt like leaving again because I have no desire to live in a dysfunctional country where greed is rewarded and prudence is punished.

hinault

Yep : the only pain I see being inflicted in all of this, is pain on the already hardpressed taxpayer.

I see no pain being inflicted on the banks.

Now it's being touted that I may have to bail out people who bought houses but cannot repay their mortgage!

Whatever about an owner occupier being unable to pay their mortgage, there is no way I would countenance bailout of tossers who bought 2/3 houses and who cannot repay their mortgages.

I have my own home - I worked hard to save a deposit and borrow 80% of the house price, and repay what I borrowed.

Yeah, I got slagged because I "didn't play the property game" during the "boom".
The same people who derided me then, now want me to bail them out!
They can whistle for it.

Permabear

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kuntboy

MysticalRain wrote: »

I don't have a problem with paying high taxes, provided the money I give to the government is well spent.

How much of the tax is wasted? Unneeded public servants twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do. Crazy bureaucracy, inefficiency, swinging the lead, junkets, quangos etc... Dare I say half? That's just a wild guess.

This thread is depressing. Irish society is seriously immature.

P. Breathnach

kuntboy wrote: »

How much of the tax is wasted? Unneeded public servants twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do. Crazy bureaucracy, inefficiency, swinging the lead, junkets, quangos etc... Dare I say half? That's just a wild guess.

This thread is depressing. Irish society is seriously immature.

When discussion of public policy is reduced to the verbal equivalent of axe-swinging in an operating theatre, then it is fair to suggest that society is immature.

Japer

When public servants get paid so much for doing so little so inefficiently, when the government spends 50 billion and only takes in 30 billion, then it is fair to suggest that society is immature.