Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

SF do not propose to abolish the carbon tax.

The propose to not increase it any further.

Nigel Farage is a fanatical British nationalist, plenty of fanatical Irish nationalists in Sinn Fein, the comparison is a lot closer to home than you think.

Fanatical, racist, idiotic, sounds nothing like SF in my books but you probably don't understand politics much so

Carbon taxes make sense everywhere, and it is only right-wing parties that oppose them. Did you see one of SF's other budget proposal - abolish property tax!!! That is another right-wing policy. Renters, the homeless and those living in social housing don't pay property tax, and Sinn Fein is again aligning with right-wing parties on this.

You are looking at this in a very strange way. SF have always opposed the property tax because of its regressive nature. Notably ie was introduced by FG and kept on by every partner they have had. Maybe in your books that makes FG liberal lefties?

The SF plan is to abolish property taxes and introduce taxation on those who are fortunate to earn higher wages so doesn't quite align with right wing policies which would look to protect the higher earners.

On the note of renters not paying property tax, do you truly believe landlords haven't budgeted for it in the calculation of rent?

Thought they had withdrawn their support for SF.

or they thought they’d get support and didn’t.
SF aren’t chasing them. Someone else is and they’re welcome.

They didn't ‘catch’ them extolling or promising far-right policy jh79, evidently that was something they deluded themselves about.

You can't have it every which way jh79
SF are anti-immigration.
also; SF have lost support because they aren't anti-immigration

Which is it?

This is like claiming that other parties are full of all the 'right' type of people. They most certainly aren't.

Again and again we see people like yourself trawling the lower ranks for a conspiracy theory or anti-immigration gotcha.

It is not party policy, if anti immigration dogwhistling emerges or the party policy turns to the right or they start promoting conspiracy anti vax theories then I would worry.

The media and general populace and invested organisations are not accusing SF of dogwhistling.

People who own houses are not necessarily wealthy either

In any case, a regressive tax is one that is charged the same regardless of earnings. Property tax, VAT, carbon tax are all examples of taxes that are levied on somebody regardless of their ability to pay. Just for clarity I'm not saying all regressive taxation is bad, tobacco duties for example is one we could debate as being regressive and good, although perhaps on another thread

Of course you leave out what SF are actually proposing. They propose to replace the LPT with a wealth tax on income and property. So there'd be no benefit to Mr McManus.

Nice try but it's fallen flat on it's face.

*bolding mine

What Assets are included?

 All income and savings

 Stocks and shares and all other financial products in public companies

 Shares in private non-trading companies

 Land

 Buildings

 Second and subsequent homes including holiday homes

 Personal possessions including art, cars, boats, planes, jewellery, gold

WealthTaxProposalsWeb.pdf (sinnfein.ie)

That's the document they should be sending to every household, it would bring their vote % back to 1997 levels.

Unlikely given 8 out of 10 people surveyed think LPT is an unfair tax.

Funny boy.
Not hard to know what you are doing.
First it was the big sensational multi millionaire would be the only one to benefit now it’s the scary good republicans.
Tiresome.

Led by Leo Varadkar we had a year or more of people being excoriated in the Dáil, in the media, here on boards.ie for raising concerns about the levels of immigration. They were 'racist', 'Putinists' 'Far Right vote grabbers etc etc etc. as the aforementioned Varadkar and his government basked in the glow of their virtue signalling.

Now we have the self same Varadkar admitting he was wrong, Simon Harris distorting the figures to dogwhistle and a conversation opening up about the mess that has been made of the whole issue.

That conversation has to be frank but responsible.

SF objected to the fairness of this scheme and the effects it was having a year ago when it was extended so there is nothing new here. Like with what Harris said you have to decide if he is right or wrong.

Doherty is blaming the government for this not Ukrainians. And he is not looking for people to be thrown off the scheme but just to stop new applications to it.

If Doherty is wrong about the effect this is having

Doherty has claimed that now one in seven private rental properties in his home county of Donegal were not being put on the housing market as, according to the TD, landlords reckon they receive better revenue by leasing the home to those from Ukraine.

He told the Dáil: “The scheme, as you know Minister, provides €800 a month to pay for rent for Ukrainians regardless of whether they’re working and regardless of their income. The payment is tax free, and that means – to a landlord – that it is worth €1,600.

then he is indeed dogwhistling like Harris.