bit choatic and hope you'll correct me if I'm wrong.
First of all I don't believe in recession! That's right!
I see people loosing jobs, I see firms collapsing but I don't believe it was unexpected and unintentional.
I believe that central banks and federal reserves are responsible for this.
Banks had/ have/ will have to much freedom with what they're doing with peoples money!
I do encourage you to do research on your own about banks and FED. You will find a lot of usefull informations.
What happened on Wall Street when bankers got the money ??
Company Merrill Lynch have spent over 1mln usd to refurbish ex vice-presidents office.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-22/john-thains-top-16-outrages/
Citigroup have been stopped by Obamas administration from buying a corporate jet for over 50mln usd.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01262009/news/nationalnews/just_plane_despicable_152033.htm
Now in Ireland, BoI employess gets pay rise.
http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/ideyauauoj/
Banks got the bailout and spend that money mostly the way only known to them. We got ripped of our (public) money.
Moneys gone, now we have a huge deficit which means no investments and no improvements. Economic growth that we experienced in a past 6 years is a memory now. Banks will stop lending money as easly as they used to. Hence the crash in the housing market.
And basically we're in a deep s**t.
Recommended:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession
I reckon this country is to small for such a moves (it's to late to say that anyway). Espacially such a tax rise! This will only deepen economy. To stimulate the market tax should be brought down. It's been known to every economist that smaller taxes means bigger spending.
What I see as a biggest mistakes for the world governments is pumping so much money in the biggest banks! Also giving money to the car makers and dealers is the dumbest thing ever! They'll get only cockier and when the next crisis comes they'll be there first with their hands out for more money.
and again WE gonna pay for it.