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Ridiculous #GE2020 promises

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  • #242
    [Deleted User]
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    Idbatterim wrote: »
    They are one of the prime reasons, that so many hard workers are screwed themselves here.
    "hard workers" pay less tax in Ireland than most comparable EU nations. Why do people, who are using the internet where a simple search can provide the correct information, instead insist on posting clearly unfactual nonsense?


  • #243
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,094 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Be interested if somebody could define "hard worker".


  • #244
    Thinkingaboutit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    strassenwo!f wrote: »
    I'm sure we can get into a discussion of future proposals for the Green Line at some later stage, and perhaps also Mr Ryan's views in 2004 - 16 years back - but the current thread is about party manifestos, and my query is about the Greens' logic of building a metro line between Ranelagh and the Southwest of the city.

    I feel it would just be more sensible to build such a line directly between the centre and the Southwest. I can't see why there is a need to faff around with building it to any station in Ranelagh, or any other station in the Southeast of the city.



    Of course a southwest option is viable, it just needs some political will, and it would certainly take more time to get to what we currently envisage as 'completion'. To date it doesn't yet seem to have registered with the decision makers that the higher population densities on the southside are in places like Terenure, Rathfarnham, Firhouse and Knocklyon, rather than in Dundrum, Clonskeagh and Sandyford, which are already very nicely served by rail transport.

    But I am hopeful that it will eventually register.

    And, in relation to this thread, I remain pretty much bamboozled by the Greens' logic behind a metro line to the Southwest via Ranelagh. Puzzled, at least.

    Those areas are poorly served. The first two have quite a few buses, but are crammed in the morning, and the last two have relatively few buses, and just buses at that, and extraordinarily crammed in the mornings, for a slow journey into town or wherever. There was to be a sort of shuttle bus from where I am to the Luas, mostly alongside the Poddle, but objections, and God knows what, put paid to that.


  • #245
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,557 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "hard workers" pay less tax in Ireland than most comparable EU nations. Why do people, who are using the internet where a simple search can provide the correct information, instead insist on posting clearly unfactual nonsense?

    it may be true, that they pay less, but is there any other country, where they get no or such shoddy services in return for their tax?


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