What would Taoiseach Healy-Rae do though, that’s what I want to know!
Burn the Wickerman!
Ireland as a whole. We want European style services with American taxes. Push comes to shove I think we’re ultimately more like the Americans. We generally get more riled up by taxes than poor services.
Even the loudest left wing parties oppose tax increases. Like broader Ireland, they’re only left wing when someone else is footing the bill.
Ok but get rid of PAYE then, don’t have both.
> Country where 30-40%+ taxes are the norm, public healthcare has long since collapsed, public transport via bus is deemed “too much fun” for taxpayers, law enforcement no longer able to even offer a deterrent against crime, housing lists are over a decade long
“It’s one of our best and fairest taxes!”
Yeah just pay more taxes man, that’ll definitely solve the problem for sure this time. If it doesn’t, we can then consider paying more taxes and see if that’ll help.
The only idiot I can see is the one who made the post.
“best and fairest”
OP look up regressive versus progressive tax.
Get rid of all tax, and just make things expensive, like more expensive then it is haha
Wait… how the fuck do I avoid the 40% tax? Please tell more, because that shit sucks. It’s not like there are a bunch of loopholes like with US taxes.
I pay USC and property tax, both to cover public services
But I also pay paye for public services
But and bear with me here – we don’t really get public services – gardai / health are underfunded – there’s no childcare, no stay at home benefits for stay at home parents, the roads are shite, I pay for my own bins, councils are reducing street bins, there’s no public toilets
Tell me a public service you’re happy with
What public services in Ireland means is “tax collection mechanism” – that’s what we pay for
The bottle deposit scheme is the fairest tax we have because you can pay in money at the till or in labour by returning the bottles. So the impoverished get an option too.
Obviously were assuming you don’t use fuel to get there as that costs more in fuel tax than the bottles will be worth most of the time, plus added fuel consumption is significantly worsening the environment for the same recycled outcome as recycling at home.
He didn’t have to wait long.
The reality is the average worker does not get any public services. It’s even more extreme outside of Dublin where you may at least use some subsidized transport. Other than that, you need to pay for everything and it’s terrible quality.
It would be good if the taxes were more honest in their description.
USC needs to go, no question
How do you structure your taxes to avoid paying the higher rate? (Asking for a friend)
Is usc not the temporary tax that came in after the bailout
U/WickerMan111 is a treasure.
Multiple budgets have removed people
From paying USC though. Which I disagree with. Even if a small amount I think everyone should pay it.
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Ewwww mobile user.
Beats another rte post.
What would Taoiseach Healy-Rae do though, that’s what I want to know!
Burn the Wickerman!
Ireland as a whole. We want European style services with American taxes. Push comes to shove I think we’re ultimately more like the Americans. We generally get more riled up by taxes than poor services.
Even the loudest left wing parties oppose tax increases. Like broader Ireland, they’re only left wing when someone else is footing the bill.
Ok but get rid of PAYE then, don’t have both.
> Country where 30-40%+ taxes are the norm, public healthcare has long since collapsed, public transport via bus is deemed “too much fun” for taxpayers, law enforcement no longer able to even offer a deterrent against crime, housing lists are over a decade long
“It’s one of our best and fairest taxes!”
Yeah just pay more taxes man, that’ll definitely solve the problem for sure this time. If it doesn’t, we can then consider paying more taxes and see if that’ll help.
The only idiot I can see is the one who made the post.
“best and fairest”
OP look up regressive versus progressive tax.
Get rid of all tax, and just make things expensive, like more expensive then it is haha
Wait… how the fuck do I avoid the 40% tax? Please tell more, because that shit sucks. It’s not like there are a bunch of loopholes like with US taxes.
I pay USC and property tax, both to cover public services
But I also pay paye for public services
But and bear with me here – we don’t really get public services – gardai / health are underfunded – there’s no childcare, no stay at home benefits for stay at home parents, the roads are shite, I pay for my own bins, councils are reducing street bins, there’s no public toilets
Tell me a public service you’re happy with
What public services in Ireland means is “tax collection mechanism” – that’s what we pay for
The bottle deposit scheme is the fairest tax we have because you can pay in money at the till or in labour by returning the bottles. So the impoverished get an option too.
Obviously were assuming you don’t use fuel to get there as that costs more in fuel tax than the bottles will be worth most of the time, plus added fuel consumption is significantly worsening the environment for the same recycled outcome as recycling at home.
He didn’t have to wait long.
The reality is the average worker does not get any public services. It’s even more extreme outside of Dublin where you may at least use some subsidized transport. Other than that, you need to pay for everything and it’s terrible quality.
It would be good if the taxes were more honest in their description.
USC needs to go, no question
How do you structure your taxes to avoid paying the higher rate? (Asking for a friend)
Is usc not the temporary tax that came in after the bailout
U/WickerMan111 is a treasure.
Multiple budgets have removed people
From paying USC though. Which I disagree with. Even if a small amount I think everyone should pay it.