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    #32
    richindub2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭richindub2


    My parents both pay PRSI / PAYE to the tune of 42% of their income a year, their money is my money thus Im losing a large chunk of my potential income to taxes of which a sizable amount will be spent on unworthy causes. And I have paid capital gains tax myself too, yes.

    Ill give into public opinion and stop posting after this, however I do feel that I should mention how ironic I find it that the only way you people can seem to accept different views from yours amounts to calling them 'mentally retarded' or a fascist. For a group of people that demands acceptance of differences in all places perhaps this shows something?


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    #33
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    pfft, ban someone for that? in typing that rich has gotten this boards first good discussion going, and fair dues to him for doing so.


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    #34
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Time to appoint a mod. I vote for Dawntrader.:)


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    #35
    Paddy20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,797 ✭✭✭Paddy20


    Time to appoint a Moderator ?..

    I second Mr Bonds nomination of : Dawntreader* for Mod. I know better than to disagree with someone with a name like that!.

    So, Dawntreader draws the short* straw.

    P.;)


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    #36
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    I have sent a PM to DeVore regarding this board & the lack of a moderator.

    I await his reply with interest!


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    You dont need to PM me (though I appreciate that you did). I'm sometimes like those all powerful aliens in SciFi series who *could* intervene but have a policy of not doing so...
    Im arguing for the taking away of a costly and unbenefical security net that will damage a small minority's lives.

    Unfortunately (for you) you live in a community where the vast majority of people do not agree with you and ARE willing to have money deducted from their wages to support people with disabilities.

    I dont drive but my taxes go to support your (or your fathers) car. I dont smoke but my taxes go to pay for extremely costly procedures to save smokers lives.
    I went to college and my fees were mostly paid for by the state.

    We (the Irish) are a community and as a community we (the healthy, workers) support the weak, the infirm, the young, the student, the old etc. Yes we pay a disproportionate amount more and recieve less. Though when it is OUR time to be sick, or disabled, or old, or a student (which I'm guessing you are or have been).... we'll be glad we live in such a society.

    I for one wouldnt have it any other way.

    My parents both pay PRSI / PAYE to the tune of 42% of their income a year, their money is my money thus Im losing a large chunk of my potential income to taxes of which a sizable amount will be spent on unworthy causes. And I have paid capital gains tax myself too, yes.


    So you arent working? Are you a student?

    You believe Ireland should be a more capitalist society. I wouldnt ban you for expressing such a view though I find it distastful myself.

    Personally I like the socialist leanings of the Irish system. You are free to completely disassociate yourself from such a system by moving to somewhere where the community has rules more to your liking. You can even stay here and try and convince other people of your beliefs...

    Like I said at the start... care, beyond supporting our genetic material to survive, is something that sets man apart from most animals imho.

    DeV.


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    daveg
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


    Originally posted by DeVore
    You dont need to PM me (though I appreciate that you did). I'm sometimes like those all powerful aliens in SciFi series who *could* intervene but have a policy of not doing so...



    Unfortunately (for you) you live in a community where the vast majority of people do not agree with you and ARE willing to have money deducted from their wages to support people with disabilities.

    I dont drive but my taxes go to support your (or your fathers) car. I dont smoke but my taxes go to pay for extremely costly procedures to save smokers lives.
    I went to college and my fees were mostly paid for by the state.

    We (the Irish) are a community and as a community we (the healthy, workers) support the weak, the infirm, the young, the student, the old etc. Yes we pay a disproportionate amount more and recieve less. Though when it is OUR time to be sick, or disabled, or old, or a student (which I'm guessing you are or have been).... we'll be glad we live in such a society.

    I for one wouldnt have it any other way.





    So you arent working? Are you a student?

    You believe Ireland should be a more capitalist society. I wouldnt ban you for expressing such a view though I find it distastful myself.

    Personally I like the socialist leanings of the Irish system. You are free to completely disassociate yourself from such a system by moving to somewhere where the community has rules more to your liking. You can even stay here and try and convince other people of your beliefs...

    Like I said at the start... care, beyond supporting our genetic material to survive, is something that sets man apart from most animals imho.

    DeV.

    Clap Clap... a fitting way to end the argument me thinks.


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