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Mini budget 2012

  • 01-03-2012 8:35am
    #1
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭


    Here we go again... more documents leaked from the EU suggesting there will be a mini budget in Ireland if the economy continues to fall. :mad:


Comments

  • #2
    average_runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Well thats common sense, dont need leak documents for that.


    This country needs to change its tax system where everyone that works pay tax, that be a start


  • #3
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    average_runner wrote: »
    Well thats common sense, dont need leak documents for that.


    This country needs to change its tax system where everyone that works pay tax, that be a start
    Who works and doesn't pay tax, besides those on very low wages?


  • #4
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    More depressing budgets > Less money available to be spent by population > Less government income > more depressing budgets.


  • #5
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    average_runner wrote: »
    Well thats common sense, dont need leak documents for that.

    The bigger issue is that we're finding out this info from leaked leaked documents and and not from our government. It's not the first time either.


  • #6
    DirtyBollox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,674 ✭✭✭DirtyBollox


    Sure we've nothing to worry about! 1012 was so last millennium!


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  • #7
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Source?

    lol 1012 :)


  • #8
    Dubit10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 609 ✭✭✭Dubit10


    smash wrote: »
    The bigger issue is that we're finding out this info from leaked leaked documents and and not from our government. It's not the first time either.

    Ah come on out of that, the Germans have been running the show for a while now. The bigger issue is why do we need to be paying these guys in Leinster house when they have no control over anything.


  • #9
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    biko wrote: »
    Source?
    It was on todayFM there a while ago during the news.
    biko wrote: »
    lol 1012 :)
    Damn, I've gone back in time :D


  • #10
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    1012?

    We have over an hour to get out of the country while we can!


  • #11
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    There wont be a mini-budget in 2012. Any credibility the government has would be shot.

    Although it would not surprise me. We have had 24 billion of a correction so far, in 4 years. Has not really worked has it. Cutting and raising taxes as a policy has not worked. Putting over 45 billion into toxic banks has not worked either. Seems we need a new approach.


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  • #12
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    There wont be a mini-budget in 2012. Any credibility the government has would be shot.

    Although it would not surprise me. We have had 24 billion of a correction so far, in 4 years. Has not really worked has it. Cutting and raising taxes as a policy has not worked. Putting over 45 billion into toxic banks has not worked either. Seems we need a new approach.
    From Jan:
    https://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/troika-not-ruling-out-mini-budget-in-2012/

    Today:
    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/govt-urged-to-clarify-mini-budget-question-after-draft-report-leaked-in-berlin-541764.html


  • #13
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Good!

    Cut the welfare so Phasers can't leave her pram at the bus stop and get a new one of the social the next day!


  • #14
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Good!

    Cut the welfare so Phasers can't leave her pram at the bus stop and get a new one of the social the next day!

    ...whilst gobbling down one of our delicious swans.


  • #15
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    mathie wrote: »
    ...whilst gobbling down one of our delicious swans.

    You mean there is some left?

    Where?

    * (Gets coat, rope and net)


  • #16
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    A mini? Surely there are better budget cars? And a car from 1012 will have serious mileage. It'll never pass the NCT :rolleyes:


  • #17
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Biggins wrote: »
    You mean there is some left?

    Where?

    * (Gets coat, rope and net)

    Swans are vicious. You'll need more than a net. My Polish housemate uses a sledgehammer to kill our dinner.


  • #18
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    token101 wrote: »
    Swans are vicious. You'll need more than a net. My Polish housemate uses a sledgehammer to kill our dinner.

    Hell, I'll just bring the sawn-off!
    That will see it sorted! :D


  • #19
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    mathie wrote: »
    ...whilst gobbling down one of our delicious swans.


    Lets introduce a special "Swan Tax" then.


  • #20
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    government should crowd source its financial plan. its proven to work better, publish it a few weeks before its enactment and get qualified feedback from some finance experts


  • #21
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    mawk wrote: »
    government should crowd source its financial plan. its proven to work better, publish it a few weeks before its enactment and get qualified feedback from some finance experts


    Would these experts be German by any chance?


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  • #22
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Anyone wrote: »
    Would these experts be German by any chance?

    the german plan is to make ireland so unbearable to live in that we all emigrate then they can move in to our empty country.


  • #23
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    hope there is one, up the tax on the big 3


  • #24
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Anyone wrote: »
    Lets introduce a special "Swan Tax" then.

    You'd kill the economy. It'd be our swan song.


  • #25
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Biggins wrote: »
    Hell, I'll just bring the sawn-off!
    That will see it sorted! :D

    Sure that's just going to blow your dinner to bits. Might aswell make soup. You stun with the hammer, snap the neck, into the bag, home for tea. I've seen the Polish doing it up by the Lough in Cork. Say what you like about the Polish, but they're efficient swan hunters.


  • #26
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Austeriry for some ie us and not those pretending to work in the dáil and their pay advisors and those in the civil service.

    Remember the retired civil servant with a retirement package of 800,000 euro in which 200,000 is tax free plus a yearly pension of 100,000+ (god, knows how much it is).
    I wonder what kind of austerity is he on? What about the countless more others on rediculous pensions?

    I realise the pay and pensions of these politicians and civil servants won't help to bridge the deficit but it will help. Many people have taken huge hits and batterings and its god damn insulting seeing this high pay and pensions for those on the gravy train.


  • #27
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    smash wrote: »
    Here we go again... more documents leaked from the EU suggesting there will be a mini budget in Ireland if the economy continues to fall. :mad:

    Have you got a link? because the last I heard the economy will grow by at least 1% this year.


  • #28
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    44leto wrote: »
    Have you got a link? because the last I heard the economy will grow by at least 1% this year.
    Post #13


  • #29
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    44leto wrote: »
    Have you got a link? because the last I heard the economy will grow by at least 1% this year.

    1% is not growth in any real sense. The figures are probably being massaged so it doesn't look like the economy is contracting.


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