Virtue signalling gobdaw Michael Higgins puts his foot in it again

Well he's not wrong is he?

How does that change anything? The state signing off on idiocy doesn't change the fact that it's idiocy. What an odd position to take.

In fairness to him, everyone's a giant when you're that small.

president ‘3 pensions’ Higgins - soon to be 4. A socialist by all accounts that worries about the poor and disadvantaged

he did drop his salary from 320k to 250k when he was elected first but got a tad shirty when asked if his pension after 7 years of hard eating out would be based on the 250 or €320 - he refused to confirm.

he also said back then that he would not claim his 3 state funded pensions when in power, would not confirm if they would be forgone or the monthly payments would just not be taken and ‘saved’ for him until he retired from this job.

and just for those that don’t know after 7 years of eating out and no living expenses his pension for this job is 1.5 times salary (250 or 320, he won’t tell us) as a lump sum with the first 200 not taxed plus 50% of salary for life (so that’s 125 or 160, secret apparently)

he is in his second term, is it only the one presidential pension he gets? I’m sure it is but who knows really. The taxpayers are not allowed to know what the socialist champion of the poor gets

And as mentioned he sold his rental property, it was within 7 years of buying and thus satisfying the rules of the time that capital gains tax was not paid on the profit

maybe he donated the tax that he saved to the poor - or used it to pay for his own dog grooming

i think myself that perhaps 3 pensions should maybe campaign that politicians can only get one state pensioN - would that not be equitable?

it’s the lifting his head out of the trough to champion the poor that I hate

and remember these pension s are all paid from future taxation so work hard everybody

40% tax rate in Ireland kicks in for a single person at €36,800 - in the Uk (well England, a bit lower in a scotland) it’s £50k/€60k so €23,200 or so higher - with usc in Ireland on top of course

so at €17 per hour here any hours above 40 per week will see you lose over 50% in tax

anyway a bit of a rant, I am from scotland and here for 25 years and paid a sh*t load of tax Both myself and employees, I can’t vote in referendums or for president (here or in scotland) - I could earn €2,800 gross to get the €1,300 net in order to pledge allegiance to the president and become a citizen but no thanks

and for those that are about to say feck off home I do like this expensive wee country and have many friends (and a few employees) - it’s the hypocrisy and some would say unpunished corruption at all levels that does my head in

€200 a day ms zaponnie used to claim in un taxed expenses to go to ‘work’ against all the rules - nobody seemed to care.