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The real reason the rich support the budget

  • 09-12-2010 4:39pm
    #1
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭


    Sorry won't be be able to defend this post as very busy at the minute.

    I can't find a link to this presently but Noonan has raised the issue in the debate today, that the very well off will now be better of in the budget and should be links up soon

    I presume FG have gone through the figures and came out with a similar result to this website
    http://www.irishleftreview.org/2010/12/08/creepy-millionaires-budget/


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  • #2
    Japer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Japer


    By far the biggest group of rich people left are the top half of the public service, well over 150,000 people such as judges, politicians, senior civil servants, lecturers, teachers, hospital consultants, doctors , management etc. The croke park agreement left them alone and yes, they are still way overpaid both compared with other countries ( or even our nearest neighbour ) and the private sector ( where comparisons can be made).
    Not surprisingly they support the budget ; almost everyone else is feeling the pain more. ( with the obvious exception of certain artists / writers etc, whose tax free status should have been abolished......also those who get salaries of 80,000 and 90,000 out of our foreign aid budget should .....well, lets just say borrowing 700 million to give to dictators and despot regimes on the far side of the world does not make sense. Charity should begin at home).


  • #3
    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    Japer, please don't bash the public service as a whole. At the end of the day, we can tarnish non-public service employees like myself with the same brush as well just because there's a few rich ones.

    It's just so annoying the way people can just tarnish you because it can be assumed you are rich.

    The problem with the Public Service is the poor management, the inefficiencies, the underproduction. Just because it isn't as well run as capitalism.

    People make assumptions that you can get rid of 5% or 5000 of the labour force in the public service or 5million euro and they won't be noticed missing. This is not the case.

    Similar cases can be made for de-unionising the the whole public service as, in my opinion, they are the greedy men who have destroyed all that the Civil Service has ever stood for.


  • #4
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    Apparantly the rich are actually better of after this budget. That is an out and out scandal.

    Brian lenihan would have fitted in well with the british gentry of the 1800's. This budget was war on the poor.


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