If you had to pay more tax

Flyingsnowball

Say the government told everybody that the tax you are paying will rise by 1 euro a week. Where would you like to see it go.

I’d like to give it to the bus drivers. My granny was on a bus before and a driver doesn’t get paid enough as far as I’m concerned.

prinzeugen

I would like it to go into a big pot. And that pot would be divided between government services or areas of the country that needed it.

Oh wait..

wally1990

Emergency services operational/front line staff to have a reasonable wage or higher than the average

I've huge respect for them and they should be paid for it

F this huge salaries for those at the top doing nothing but admin etc

Pay the front line people on a reasonable level

Also the roads in Cork

So many roads in awful condition ha

Flyingsnowball

It has to be one thing. You can’t give a little bit of your tax to everyone.

screamer

Use it to Build a nuclear power station and be done with this bull of carbon emissions.... in the most fuel dependent country in Europe.

NIMAN

The LUAS drivers deserve more imho.

Flyingsnowball

NIMAN wrote: »

The LUAS drivers deserve more imho.

My granny has never been on a Luas

NIMAN

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

My granny has never been on a Luas

Neither have I.;)

Flyingsnowball

NIMAN wrote: »

Neither have I.;)

I’d say you and my granny would have got on famously.

animaal

A spire. But bigger than the Dublin one. With lasers.

NIMAN

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

I’d say you and my granny would have got on famously.

Would have?
Did she die?

bilbot79

I would donate it to Jacob Rees-Mogg so he can become even richer while he attempts to shaft the Irish

paw patrol

I'd pay more tax but I want value

burn the quangos...all of them .
You want lobbying...pay for it yourself.

then pay the nurses cos they are hot as f8ck, even the hefty ones look savage.

Flyingsnowball

NIMAN wrote: »

Would have?
Did she die?

Probably would you give me the tax if I said she did.

paw patrol

bilbot79 wrote: »

I would donate it to Jacob Rees-Mogg so he can become even richer while he attempts to shaft the Irish

I wish we'd TDs like him...honorable man morally decent not swayed by the trappings of neon or wealth...like our shower

Flyingsnowball

paw patrol wrote: »

I wish we'd TDs like him...honorable man morally decent not swayed by the trappings of neon or wealth...like our shower

Pfft why don’t you marry him then.

You could give the money to the border wall I suppose.

super_furry

The Scientologists. No one ever thinks about the Scientologists.

Pkiernan

Should be used for tax cuts for families earning more than 100k.
They get shafted, while layabouts get everything handed to them.

Could it not be used to lower the tax rate for the richest people in society? It's disgraceful that some of those great people and their corporations are paying up to 5% tax on their billions.

Collie D

Pkiernan wrote: »

Should be used for tax cuts for families earning more than 100k.
They get shafted, while layabouts get everything handed to them.

Tax cut of a Euro a week?

mikemac2

Irish rail won’t have any new carriages for another 2-3 years

Indians on the roof of the Calcutta Express bless the stars they are not as overcrowded as the Docklands train at Ashtown

I’ll pay more taxes if Irish Rail get some carriages! Don’t need drivers or staff, just carriages is all I ask

Assetbacked

I will vehemently oppose any attempt to tax me further or to avoid taking steps to abolish the Usc until the current public spending is utilised more efficiently.

Just look at the Children's Hospital as an example, the National Children's Hospital Development Board reports to the Children's Hospital Project and Programme Steering Committee, chaired by a Health Service Executive manager, which in turn reports to the Children's Hospital Project and Programme Board, which is chaired by the Department of Health's secretary General. Our civil service should be gutted.

Johnnyhpipe

Nevermind the worlds most expensive hospital. For just €1 extra per week, we could have the most expensive hospital in the universe! Lets do it!!

fergiesfolly

It would probably get spent on overtime by civil servants counting the extra euros.

It would be a cool idea for people to voluntarily donate a euro a week to go into a fund set aside for smallish one-off projects.
So, one week, a village in Wexford gets a community centre. The following week a town in Mayo gets an extra classroom for the school. And so on.
They could annouce it before the main evening news on Sunday night. Create a feel good factor for the country.

Tom Mann Centuria

We could call it the Tesco blue token tax.

antodeco

I'd gladly give a euro week, for a tax reduction of 2 euro a week. That way I'd then have the euro back, to give another euro to get another 2 euro back. Eventually, if I donated enough euros I'd be a millionaire!

Giveaway

Hitman fund. Make the incompetent and corrupt and criminal sweat a bit

Wanderer78

antodeco wrote:

I'd gladly give a euro week, for a tax reduction of 2 euro a week. That way I'd then have the euro back, to give another euro to get another 2 euro back. Eventually, if I donated enough euros I'd be a millionaire!

A millionaire with collapsing or collapsed public services and infrastructure, life would rock!

antodeco

Wanderer78 wrote: »

A millionaire with collapsing or collapsed public services and infrastructure, life would rock!

I'd buy my own nurse and doctor. Probably a masseuse too. Plus, I'd imagine Dublin Zoo would need to sell off their animals. I could have a pet red panda and giraffe burgers.

professore

I'd hire Michael O Leary, point him at the HSE and give him a euro for every 10 euro he saves without affecting patient care. I'd give him another euro for improving patient care without increasing expenditure.

Repeat with the rest of the public sector. Pretty soon we would be getting tax cuts.

Plus Michael O Leary would become the richest person on the planet.

Wanderer78

professore wrote:

I'd hire Michael O Leary, point him at the HSE and give him a euro for every euro he saves without affecting patient care. I'd give him another euro for improving patient care without increasing expenditure.

He's not the messiah that some believe him to be, the public sector is a service not a business, he d have it privitised, and the wealth extraction would begin

antodeco

professore wrote: »

I'd hire Michael O Leary, point him at the HSE and give him a euro for every 10 euro he saves without affecting patient care. I'd give him another euro for improving patient care without increasing expenditure.

Repeat with the rest of the public sector. Pretty soon we would be getting tax cuts.

Plus Michael O Leary would become the richest person on the planet.

Problem is, blood type O is free, but A or B is €5 a pint. AB is €9.99.

Charlie19

I'd pay a euro to have an endless supply offresh water.

professore

Wanderer78 wrote: »

He's not the messiah that some believe him to be, the public sector is a service not a business, he d have it privitised, and the wealth extraction would begin

It's already privatised. How do you think consultants make so much money? Their massive salary is only part of their income. If it provided better care without costing the state or end users any more than it already does then bring it on.

I would like all our 1 euros to go to the person who’s brave enough to split the public sector up. Madness that they all work off the same pay structure. If a nurse gets a pay rise, some admin who orders stationary gets it too. Wtf, like?

Pauliedragon

We could pay 99% tax and still nothing would change. It would just disappear into whatever vortex the rest of it goes.

Fr_Dougal

Monorail.

Wanderer78

professore wrote:

It's already privatised. How do you think consultants make so much money? Their massive salary is only part of their income. If it provided better care without costing the state or end users any more than it already does then bring it on.

It's semi-privatised, but is this causing more problems than its worth? The American health care system is known to be one of the most expensive in the world, and with a very large portion of it privatised, maybe privatisation isn't the way to go!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

It has to be one thing. You can’t give a little bit of your tax to everyone.

You most certainly can; you do so already. Anything else would be absurd.

DoozerT6

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Monorail.

What's that word?...

threetrees

I think I'd like it to pay for special investigations into social welfare fraud. So many people still claiming for stuff they are absolutely not entitled to.

biko

I'd move all national sports stadiums to Athlone

not yet

Invest it all in Bohs..

ceekay74

A series of retractable roofs covering the majority of the country.

dmc17

Could be used for a game where people have to come up with personal injury stories, with the most ridiculous stories getting the biggest prizes. A portion of it could be used to fund the allocation of real judges, solicitors etc to the game. Since it is a game, there would be no adverse consequences if you didn't win

Flyingsnowball

What about big screens in local parks with Irish sporting events playing around the clock.

Or getting rid of the stupid exercise machines they put in the park nationwide and putting proper ones in.

Would there be enough money to put a Traveller halting site in everybody's back yard?

tayto lover

Deleted User wrote: »

Would there be enough money to put a Traveller halting site in everybody's back yard?

I’d put 7 in RTE’ Montrose headquarters. They love them.
2 beside Miriam “precious” O’Callaghan’s house.
Two beside Ciara Kelly’s house.
Another few beside Mickey D in the Park.
5 beside Tubridy.

Flyingsnowball

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Would there be enough money to put a Traveller halting site in everybody's back yard?

Jesus America are going more anti immigration all the time I can’t see them taking travellers to live in their back yards while building a wall on the border with Mexico.

Ronaldinho

Increased supports for those with disabilities (real ones, not makey uppy ones to get the social welfare office off peoples' backs)

Wanderer78

Ronaldinho wrote:

Increased supports for those with disabilities (real ones, not makey uppy ones to get the social welfare office off peoples' backs)

Define 'real ones'?