Varadkar: "It's not the state's responsibility (to provide a home and an education)"

Please note that I am very careful to use the words marginal and extra.

Workers who earn below average wages in Ireland pay close to 50% marginal income tax rate on any extra earnings over 42k.

That statement is true.

Mean earnings of FT workers in 2022 are 54189, see CSO table EHA05.

How would you define a mandate or responsibility for the state to house people but only some people?

Status quo is fine, it's at the states discretion to house those it can and those who need it, however if they had concrete legal obligations or responsibilities then it would an entirely diffetent story.

The majority of people know that we are referring to marginal income tax rates on extra earnings.

Marginal rates matter when considering extra hours, overtime, progression, promotion.

A good point about health insurance.

Many people buy it out of fear. It is like a quasi-tax.

Agree

That's different. Walk through Ballymun, Clondalkin, etc on children's allowance day and you'll see all the "single" mothers getting lone parents and children's allowance, when the partner lives with them on the QT.

Provide death cert and you are provided with the benefit, no issue at all, but career mothers are more common than death of SO

Same here. It is free. It grinds my gears to hear people on LA housing either complain about paying their "rent" or stating that they pay rent as some sort of justification that their house isnt 95+% subsidized

that's the type of comment that has us like this

don't have a kid unless you have the means to provide for one , not somebody else's responsibility

Thats a different discussion. OP stated quite that Single mothers shouldn't get housed. He didn't state why.

the ones who bite back are obviously recipients of this

I'm a single parent of 2 with a mortgage and id rather shift crap from A to B than be at the mercy of somebody else

why don't longterm dolers be out cleaning streets or something to at least do something for their cash

simple scenario

my friend , 47 earns €70k in a hospital and has a mortgage and bills and car loan etc and loses a tonne monthly to tax

she gets child benefit and single parent allowance

but nothing to help with her mortgage .............

then you have anita who never worked a day in her life and has 5 kids and gets everything handed to her and never contributed to society , is it fair that somebody got well educated and a good job to be then bent over a barrel to pay for anita ?

but at least you are in control , and im sure you'd do everything to keep that roof over your head etc

why are single parents who never contribute to society given everything ? why do they feel they are entitled to anything ?

that's my point , hundreds of millions or even billions wasted every year on this bs and needs to stop

Stop listening to the words and look at the actions of the government. Anyone who thinks we've been run by a right wing tax cutting government for the last 13 odd years hasn't being paying attention. The money gets spent very little is returned in tax cuts. Which is fine by me. In theory FG would like to cut taxes in practice we have many areas that need funding and they win the majority of the budget and tax cutting gets put off. Honestly it doesn't seem so bad to me.

I'm sure there won't be some significant change when SF get into power because there isn't that much more left over to move from tax cutting to spending.

....theres a very good chance there wont be a sf lead government next time around, so it might be a good idea to prepare for yet another ffg one, yippee!