Foxtrol wrote: » ‘Nothing’ – The hyperbole around here is fantastic. They are getting far from ‘nothing’, they’re getting plenty of ‘perks’ just not a free medical card subsidized by people paying taxes, trying to support their children, in negative equity while earning less than the pensioner. You are aware that this universal ‘entitlement’ for them all to have a medical card hasn’t been here for generations, it’s something that was thought up by the crowd that ruined the country with extravagant, unaffordable attempts to buy votes.
irishfeen wrote: » Being realistic as to the situation we find ourselves in...Who do you want to pay for the public sector, social welfare, state pensions, grants, free education etc? .... do you want the working man to pay even more?, the droves of educated people leaving on the plane?... who? We have to do this, we have no choice.
bleg wrote: » Free GP care for all under 5s is a disgrace.
Ace2007 wrote: » There are plenty of choices though no one wants to look at them. You could suggest no more free education, have a UK type system whereby you have to get a loan to go to college and then pay it back - there would be uproar here if that was suggested. As you said our educated people are leaving the country - is it fair my tax educated them to go to australlia to earn more and pay less tax Public sector is a joke - but that will never change cause no one in the government has the balls to sort it out so they will continue to let it be the inefficient money wasting machine that it is. Following on from the above comment, the social welfare/job bridge are all over the place. Simple if you want to claim money you scan your finger print, getting that brought in would save the state money long term, there was a case in the courts during the week where a guy claimed another person's dole for 3 years - how is that possible - where was the checks - the people that paid him out should have implications - but I doubt they did. So you see there are way without screwing over the most vulnerable but the government don't have the balls to do it.
DebDynamite wrote: » The mother of that newborn though has had her maternity benefit cut from €262 to €230 per week. Would the average child really get enough free GP visits over the 5 years to make up for that reduction? Give with one hand and take with the other.
irishfeen wrote: » Of course they would visit the GP a lot, probably more then at any time in their life.
awec wrote: » People don't want cuts to be made but people also don't want to have to pay for stuff. They want everything and they want it for nothing. Make no mistake, those moaning about the pensioner medical cards would be the same ones moaning if their taxes had increased further to continue paying for them.
DebDynamite wrote: » I was hardly ever at the doctor, neither were my siblings. I'd imagine most average, healthy children would be the same.
Stinicker wrote: » A good budget for the working man, very bad for those on handouts, hopefully it will materialise into jobs. The DIRT hike is a disgrace and will trigger another bank liquidity crisis as billions in deposits will now move offshore when they will be receiving practically no Interest here.
canadianwoman wrote: » I do not know how you can say that let alone think it. Free healthcare should be available to ALL children whether they live in Ireland, Canada or anywhere else in the world. It is the least we as adults can do to ensure they grow up having healthy productive lives.
Ace2007 wrote: » add 1c tax to text messages would bring in over 100million if my sums where right. (based on 3,049,241,000 texts me sent over a 3 month period in 2012
Reduction in fuel allowance. Telephone allowance scrapped. Funeral grant scrapped. Property Tax. Water tax soon.
Uriel. wrote: » FAIR raising dirt from 33% to 41% Makes Sense, must make it more attractiveness to spend rather than save
raising dirt from 33% to 41%
irishfeen wrote: » Some recently retired teachers are coming out with about €500 p/w... that's a massive pension.
tayto lover wrote: » If everyone cancelled their health insurance and went public where would it leave the HSE? The bloody VHI is very expensive.
In relation to medical insurance relief, I have decided to cap the amount of premium on which tax relief will be available to €1,000 per adult and €500 per child. This will restrict the exposure of the Exchequer in relation to premiums paid for ‘gold plated’ medical insurance policies
Yawns wrote: » How many years has this been trotted out about adding a 1c tax to texts. If it was introduced years ago we'd be up to about 10c tax on every text at this stage. Then those who wanted it, would be moaning about it.
tayto lover wrote: » Are you aware that the pensioner might also be helping his/her children who are in negative equity? Picky yourself.
Freddy Smelly wrote: » not a good idea in the long run... with pension schemes being raped constantly by the government some people prefered to save money for their old age. the rest of us have not enough to save anyways nor do we have enough to spend of frivalous thingsjust waiting for noonan to bring in manditory suicide for 65 and older next
