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You Cannot Criticize Finance Ministers

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  • #62
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    Markus Antonius wrote: »

    People are getting their houses stripped away from them for being late on their high interest mortgage payments.

    If only they were. Then maybe we'd have lower mortgage rates. People are not losing their PPRs over late mortgage payments.


  • #63
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    You haven’t really offered any proof of this. You just keep stating it.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/personal-finance/what-is-the-truth-about-paying-tax-in-ireland-1.4101097?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fpersonal-finance%2Fwhat-is-the-truth-about-paying-tax-in-ireland-1.4101097
    Anne Gunnell of the Irish Tax Institute seems to agree with me.
    Gunnell says, there is evidence among some industries and sectors in the State that they find it difficult to compete with other countries “in attracting certain people back, if they are on particular salary levels, because they would be paying the higher tax rate at much lower levels of earnings than [in] other countries”.


  • #64
    Bubbaclaus
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    He's the best Finance Minister we have had in my memory, and I can't think of a single person in the entire Oireachtas I would prefer to have in the role.

    The fact he was elected President of the Eurogroup also says a lot and shows he is well respected across the EU.


  • #65
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    He's the best Finance Minister we have had in my memory, and I can't think of a single person in the entire Oireachtas I would prefer to have in the role.

    The fact he was elected President of the Eurogroup also says a lot and shows he is well respected across the EU.

    Mccreevy was our best finance minister. That man helped move Ireland from a little island of farmers and fruit of the loom workers to the economic powerhouse it is today.


  • #66
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    Mccreevy was our best finance minister. That man helped move Ireland from a little island of farmers and fruit of the loom workers to the economic powerhouse it is today.

    Whilst he certainly was a key face of the Celtic Tiger period, the fact a lot of the policies implemented under his term ended up causing Ireland to be significantly impacted by the Global Financial Crisis a few years later, soured my memory of him somewhat. Certainly a lot of good there though also.


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  • #67
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,063 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    He's the best Finance Minister we have had in my memory, and I can't think of a single person in the entire Oireachtas I would prefer to have in the role.

    The fact he was elected President of the Eurogroup also says a lot and shows he is well respected across the EU.
    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    Whilst he certainly was a key face of the Celtic Tiger period, the fact a lot of the policies implemented under his term ended up causing Ireland to be significantly impacted by the Global Financial Crisis a few years later, soured my memory of him somewhat. Certainly a lot of good there though also.

    you gotta love neoclassicals!


  • #68
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,913 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/personal-finance/what-is-the-truth-about-paying-tax-in-ireland-1.4101097?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fpersonal-finance%2Fwhat-is-the-truth-about-paying-tax-in-ireland-1.4101097
    Anne Gunnell of the Irish Tax Institute seems to agree with me.
    I can only refer you to the above statement - they would say that, wouldn't they?
    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    Mccreevy was our best finance minister. That man helped move Ireland from a little island of farmers and fruit of the loom workers to the economic powerhouse it is today.
    Check out the Reeling in the Years episode from around 2002 or 2003 where McCreevy explains how all the other Finance Ministers in Europe were wrong to be telling him that he was over-inflating our economy. When did the bubble burst?


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