Your Fantasy Budget. After Hours style

IvaBigWun · 13-10-2014 08:11PM #1

In an ideal world

I'd introduce a €500 levy for anyone showing up at a hospital A&E as a result of being drunk and disorderly. If they cant afford to pay it then it comes out of their Social Welfare or wages weekly till the bill is settled.

A 70% tax bracket for anyone making more than €200k a year.

All political positions capped at €75k a year, including expenses and including the Taoiseach.

You?

catallus · 13-10-2014 08:12PM

No income tax for a year.

mikeym · 13-10-2014 08:12PM

A Dennis O'Brien Tax!

solomafioso · 13-10-2014 08:13PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

All political positions capped at €75k a year, including expenses and including the Taoiseach.

Exactly what I was going to post.

biko · 13-10-2014 08:14PM

Fire all politicians and let Philosopher Kings rule, like Plato suggested all those years ago.

Slunk · 13-10-2014 08:14PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

In an ideal world

I'd introduce a €500 levy for anyone showing up at a hospital A&E as a result of being drunk and disorderly. If they cant afford to pay it then it comes out of their Social Welfare weekly.

A 70% tax bracket for anyone making more than €200k a year.

All political positions capped at €75k a year, including expenses and including the Taoiseach.

You?

What if your drunk and are attack at random? I think the 8 hour wait is punishment enough.

catallus · 13-10-2014 08:14PM

Our pols are worth more than that.

joe swanson · 13-10-2014 08:16PM

Just put up a link to Sinn feins website or any of the loony left. There's real fantasy stuff there.

IvaBigWun · 13-10-2014 08:19PM

Slunk wrote: »

What if your drunk and are attack at random? I think the 8 hour wait is punishment enough.

I said drunk and disorderly

13-10-2014 08:19PM

I'd put up cigarette duty to 50 euros a pack, and I'd make public drunkenness a criminal offence with a mandatory fine AND prison sentence. Urinating in public ditto.

I'd make a failure to say 'Please' and 'Thank You' subject to large on-the-spot fines, and it would be the same for failing to hold the door open for the elderly, incapacitated or infirm.

The world would be a much nicer and safer place.

0byme75341jo28 · 13-10-2014 08:20PM

Getting rid of the TV license.

IvaBigWun · 13-10-2014 08:23PM

catallus wrote: »

No income tax for a year.

I said "fantasy" not "LaLa Land"

dr.bollocko · 13-10-2014 08:24PM

This is after hours so no more dole, fire all the politicians, kick out all the foreigners, everyone gets a free gun and people who stay in the overtaking lane without overtaking get blown up by missiles. all drug users and farmers will be killed and it's all presented by somebody in a nice low cut top.

Real answer - stop squeezing the middle so hard. Some of us want to stay here.

Afroshack · 13-10-2014 08:26PM

Fines of 1,000 + for anyone caught being severely drunk and disorderly in the streets (picking fights etc, not just falling over a bit tipsy) which go straight to funding the police force. I'd cap politicians at 80K, normal TD's should take home the average industrial wage (30K)

Scrap half of the medical cards out there and bring in a flat fee of 15 euro for a GP appointment or a membership-style fee of 100euro a year per family in a GP surgery.

Double the budgets for health and education, but bring in much stricter targets in terms of patients on waiting lists being seen and schools improving standards, especially in Literacy.

I'd actually keep the 3,500 it costs per year for college, but introduce student loan schemes so help them pay it off gradually, and not until they are earning over 20K a year. I'd pump that extra cash into other sectors of education - like falling literacy rates, IT training and proper Physical Education classes (not just running around a field like we already do) I'd keep the grants and install maybe 50-100 scholarships per major university across all fields (especially IT, languages and science)

Raise tax on petrol and high-fat foods (sorry) but build a proper Metro like the undergrounds in London and Berlin and remove the tax on bikes.

Reduce the prison population by having prisoners do community work in their local area over the course of a year (repairs, painting, mending, even mentoring younger kids etc) Take the extra money and invest heavily in tourism.

Sir Arthur Daley · 13-10-2014 08:26PM

Rise everything, wages, fuel, water charges and beer.

Davarus Walrus · 13-10-2014 08:27PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

All political positions capped at €75k a year, including expenses and including the Taoiseach.

You?

Why would anyone become a politican then? You'd get more working for a semi-state. €75k? To deal with constituents? Let's not forget that the majority of the electorate are complete fcuking arseholes, with a belief that there is an infinite supply of money. I wouldn't do it for 200k.

catallus · 13-10-2014 08:28PM

I wish someone would squeeze my middle

Wompa1 · 13-10-2014 08:28PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

A 70% tax bracket for anyone making more than €200k a year.

Why would anyone ever aspire to the highest level possible in the country? Or why would those who make more than that stay if that was introduced?

mikeym · 13-10-2014 08:29PM

If you raise tax on Petrol/Diesel everything goes up.

Ever heard of inflation.

The Backwards Man · 13-10-2014 08:31PM

I'd half all taxes in all counties with an Atlantic coastline and double all taxes in counties without.

In the interests of tourism like.

veryangryman · 13-10-2014 08:32PM

Skirt tax. Shorter the skirt the shorter the tax!

IvaBigWun · 13-10-2014 08:32PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

€75k? To deal with constituents?

A nurse gets (maybe) half that to put up with at least 5 times as much shíte.

131spanner · 13-10-2014 08:34PM

Air tax. Meter everyone's air intake and tax the beJaysus out of them.*

*Reduced rate for job seekers and elderly.

mickydoomsux · 13-10-2014 08:35PM

Hat tax.

Different tax bands for different types of hats. You know it makes sense. It's crazy we haven't got one already.

Menas · 13-10-2014 08:39PM

Full reform of politicians expenses and pension entitlements.
Full reform of all civil service allowances.
Start planning for what happens when haddington road expires, in particular with regard to automatic increments and their link to performance ratings...where those ratings show 99.4% of civil servants are doing an acceptable or better job and thus entitled to increments.
Rename 'carbon tax' as just 'tax'. Stop pulling the wool over our eyes.
Produce a plan to revert our tax regime to something similar to what we had in 2008.
Start with moving the higher tax threshold to a higher figure.
Revert spending cuts that have impacted on carers and those with special needs.
Extend the section 481 scheme.
Lower vat on new residential buildings to the same as the UK. ie 0.
etc

mickydoomsux · 13-10-2014 08:45PM

Make public sector/semi-state employees pay 100% tax because they are clearly intrinsically evil and shure they are all related anyway.

Glock Lesnar · 13-10-2014 08:51PM

Next budget should

Declare a socialist 32 county republic
90% tax bracket for those earning 50,000 or upwards
250€ allowance for those who regularly read an phoblact
Leave the EU
Remove levies on alcohol and cigarettes
All social welfare and allowances are doubled
Appoint a high inquisitor to hunt down and punish 'the bankers'

Glock Lesnar · 13-10-2014 08:54PM

They should also pass a law that makes sure you can only hire people that you've never ever heard of ever.

sassyj · 13-10-2014 08:55PM

This is After Hours, and no one has suggested a special tax allowance for coke n' hookers???? Letting yourselves down lads.

IvaBigWun · 13-10-2014 08:57PM

Glock Lesnar wrote: »

90% tax bracket for those earning 50,000 or upwards

Is that missing a zero?

mickydoomsux · 13-10-2014 08:59PM

Glock Lesnar wrote: »

Next budget should

Declare a socialist 32 county republic
90% tax bracket for those earning 50,000 or upwards
250€ allowance for those who regularly read an phoblact
Leave the EU
Remove levies on alcohol and cigarettes
All social welfare and allowances are doubled
Appoint a high inquisitor to hunt down and punish 'the bankers'

You forgot the €5000 fine for not "Irish"-ing your surname.

Your Fantasy Budget. After Hours style

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