Your Fantasy Budget. After Hours style

• That the Dáil introduces forced labour in a concentration camp onto those who are on social welfare for more than 5 years.

They're only permitted to escape the cycle of forced labour if:

• They decide to permanently emigrate to another country with no right of return
  
• Are willing to commit to a policy of voluntary suicide

Social welfare reduced by 10% each year you claim it.
Raise tax on ciggerettes.
Get rid of USC.

I don't know the first thing about it...we don't see the books in fairness, but to play into the speculation of it all. Here we go:

I would tax the dole and cut it off after 3 years

I would lower income tax for everybody working...

I would raise the minimum wage...

I would re-introduce a small tax on bets and also tax any large winnings e.g. over 10k

I would plan a strategy to ensure the EU funding being received is spread across the country.

I would cap the pay for politicians and make all forms of private donations directly to a politician illegal with a mandatory minimum prison sentence.

I would introduce a nominal fee for primary and secondary school and invest in revamping education at those levels. Having performance reviews for teachers with actual action taken after them, training teachers in technology and ensuring there's a strict curriculum being followed through all subjects. I would also ensure there's more focus on teaching the downside of alcohol from a young age.

I would lower the price of fees for certain college courses dependent on the need for qualified people and raise the fees for fields like Arts, History, Philosophy, Psychology...basically the soft sciences and 'creative' courses.

I would increase tax on alcohol in pubs and shops. I would increase the price of cigarettes. I would legalize marijuana and prostitution (hookers walking the streets would still be illegal) and I would tax the ever living ****e out of them too and have them heavily regulated.

I would mandate that drink and drug screenings are brought into the employment process for public sector....with a view of this becoming norm for the private sector too to introduce 'random' testing if desired. It would create jobs at the drug screening centers and might stop a few people from showing up after lunch high as a kite or p1ssed as a fart the next morning. A possible increase in productivity.

I would sell RTE 2 and 2FM and spin TG4 into an optional language...you pick to watch the programming in English or Irish. Sports would be aired on TG4, along with most of the original scripted television shows. I would also break up the cartel of agencies that currently have the 'in' with RTE.

I would introduce boot camps for young offenders. A previous proposal by Fine Gael that never came to fruition. Might help stamp out underage drinking and those jackeen f**kers who go around beating people up unprovoked.

I would pay out on the contracts of the third party entities that currently operate the tolls on some of our motor ays and directly hire people to work in them.

I would refund anybody that bought the 25 euro certificate of Irish Heritage and instead offer them actual citizenship, that was embarrassing.

I would drop the property tax on homes occupied by people over 65 years of age.

I would cut the single parents allowances significantly and hire auditors to look at most forms of benefits to ensure they are legit. These auditors would also review the PPS.

Council housing would become much, much more limited.

I'd put a tax on mobile phones...not because of Joan Burton but previously there was an idea floated about throwing on a 1 cent tax on a text message which I think is a good idea but then how could you apply that to free text promotions...it would put an end to them which is crap. A one time tax each time you pay a phone..on top of VAT obviously.

I'd raise the cost of a dogs license and use the money to try to combat all those b@stards that don't pick up after their dogs and maybe get more kill shelters to turn into no kill shelters. And also to close down more breeders and to provide free neutering services...so there'd be less need to kill the poor feckers.

The current processing for Asylum Seekers would be revised. Leaving them waiting for 7 years is helping nobody.

I'd work to drop the costs of flying into Ireland from other countries. I'd look at the different tourist attractions and determine if there's a better way to promote or display them...

I'd make Irish optional in secondary school and drop the Irish requirement for jobs and Universities.

I would also ensure anybody who goes to prison with multiple previous convictions will need to work while in there, to help them get experience and also to earn their stay

I'd also charge full tuition to anybody who goes back to college if the person had completed multiple post grads or undergrads already.

Deleted User wrote: »

Thank fcuk the OP isn't in charge.

You're in charge!

I'd make it illegal to get out of bed before 11am in Winter. Anyone not adhering to my new policy will pay me a fine of a load of good black turf.

Clandestine wrote: »

-No Income tax
-No social welfare
-No minimum wage
-Private most governments services like the postal service
-Legalize all drugs + all victimless crimes
-Scrap all extra taxes on cigarettes + alcohol
-Abolish immigration laws
-Abolish all discrimination laws
-Privatise the roads
-Scrap water charges + property tax

A man can dream.....

What a recipe for disaster!

Clandestine wrote: »

I don't think so, but we won't see most of these come into effect while I'm still alive. Give it 200/300 years and we'll see.

I'd love some of it but we're not there as a nation. Also, when you say no income tax....what do you envision? Massive homelessness or are you looking at somewhere like the UAE?

Because they take care of their locals....

Manach wrote: »

Allow the Government to spend all the money it wants. The caveat being restricting it to a 10% of GDP. There has to be efficiencies made outside the crony capitalism/socialism that pervades the cosy-establishment that rules this country.

Great idea