Fine Gael Slash and Burn

COOL ICE

:mad:The only thing Fine Gael look set to slash and burn are slash workers from front line services and burn all tax payers with indirect taxes. Water,property, increased VAT,capital gains tax but to name a few. The amazing thing is they have managed to pull the wool over the voters eyes for now.

Chucky the tree

How so? They've outlined all there tax increases. Also they've said they won't cut any frontline service's but it would it really be a huge loss if they did?

namloc1980

There's a budget deficit that has to be tackled. It won't magically go away unless we cut/raise taxes. In fact FG are proposing to raise less from new taxes than Labour.

Pete_Cavan

We have to reduce the budget deficit, it will happen regardless of who gets into government. FGs approach is 72:28 in favour of cuts over taxes, FF are about 65:35 and Lab are 50:50. The thread should be called "Fine Gael slash but not burn" because they are not going to lump loads of extra taxes on us. There is a lot of fat to trim from the public service so big savings can be made without effecting front line services. We need to become a low cost economy in order to competitive and create jobs, not burden the taxpayer further. FGs plan is the logical approach.

mohawk

They have repeatedly said they want to get rid of the excess admin/bureaucratic staff. Which I happen to agree with. If you have ever dealt with HSE you would soon realise that there is a need to get rid of some of those admin staff.


All those tax raises you mention are in FFs four year plan. Take water for example Ireland is one of the very few european countries without water meters and as a result our water consumption is very high. Water is very expensive to treat. I know there were talks of giving each household a water quota which sounds fair.

Like namloc said how are you going to tackle the budget deficit without cuts. We need to get the pain out of the way instead of dragging it out.

EricPraline

COOL ICE wrote: »

:mad:The only thing Fine Gael look set to slash and burn are slash workers from front line services and burn all tax payers with indirect taxes. Water,property, increased VAT,capital gains tax but to name a few. The amazing thing is they have managed to pull the wool over the voters eyes for now.

What's amazing to me is that parties/independents making populist claims about avoiding the need to make cuts or increase taxes are still managing to pull the wool over voters' eyes.

COOL ICE

That just some of what Lucinda Creighton said on the radio this morning. Now thats more than any party.

namloc1980

COOL ICE wrote: »

That just some of what Lucinda Creighton said on the radio this morning. Now thats more than any party.

Do you think that we don't need to tackle the deficit?

COOL ICE

They are getting a lot of the uninformed protest vote.

dsmythy

They are probably the loudest and clearest on how they are planning to rein in our budget. The others seem desperate to murmur it.

dsmythy

COOL ICE wrote: »

They are getting a lot of the uninformed protest vote.

Someone describing voting for Fine Gael this election as a protest vote has to be Fianna Fáil

bladespin

Open and honest IMO, most of the others seem to still be pandering to some group or another, except FF who still seem to have their heads buried up their ****s.

COOL ICE

We certainly do. But if you hit the average taxpayer any harder it will result in job losses and reduced spending, you will kill what’s left of the economy.

COOL ICE

Numbers dont add up

Chucky the tree

So how else will we fix our €17bn deficit?

thetonynator

Chucky the tree wrote: »

So how else will we fix our ?17bn deficit?

we could use sinn fein's magic 'make money appear from nowhere' plan. . . :P :P :P

tails_naf

COOL ICE wrote: »

:mad:The only thing Fine Gael look set to slash and burn are slash workers from front line services and burn all tax payers with indirect taxes. Water,property, increased VAT,capital gains tax but to name a few. The amazing thing is they have managed to pull the wool over the voters eyes for now.

Nice job there getting almost every point ass backwards.

FG are not going to cut front line, are proposing almost no tax increases (they are favoring cuts, and admin/middle-management PS cuts), CG Tax is up by 5% (but who usually benefits from CG - rich/investors - so no problem there). There is no wool pulling, just reasonable policies.

leincar

Mmmm, Cool Ice, joined February 2011, posts 5, all in this thread.

I smell a shill. Sorry I ain't buying your crap today or any other day.

KELTICKNIGHTT

which ever become the goverment,if they raise taxes too much then companys will be less likely too come too ireland too setup,theres only so much people can take ,should have learnt this from the 70's and 80's,didnt work then and wont now