Remember how determined Fine Gael were for getting rid of USC in 2016?

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  1. Liars the lot of them. Next they will telling us how were they to know that printing money for the last few years would lead to inflation.

  2. Ah, hate to play devil’s advocate here but we need that money, otherwise it’s other taxes instead. We need a certain amount of money to function as a country and that’s a vital part of the countries income.

    And I do think it’s one of the fairer taxes, people who earn more, pay more.

  3. “Fine Gael will unilaterally force the bondholders to share the cost of recapitalising the banks”

    “Fine Gael will give Ireland a high speed broadband with speeds in the top 5 of OECD”

    “Find Gael will dismantle the HSE and replace it with a system of Universal Healthcare starting in 2016”

    All from 2011 manifesto.

  4. Just not determined enough. That tool will say anything and what he says changes depending on who he’s trying to impress on a given week.

  5. Pascal D was on Newstalk earlier this week and was shocked and appalled when it was put to him that USC was a tempory tax. I’ve never seen anyone distance themselves from anything quicker. He refused outright that it was a temporary tax and that he never said that.
    The presenter (can’t recall her name, the former doctor one), you could tell, was thinking to herself “the dogs on the street know this was introduced as a temporary tax”.

    Anyways. TLDR #knobs

  6. *What a politician says and what a politician actually does are two very different things. Leo the Leak is no exception.

  7. They didn’t win a majority in the election a month later and the rest is history. Martin said the other day that expenditure has grown to since it was introduced. Fine… but what are they going to do when the next crisis hits? We’ve spent the rainy day fund and it doesn’t look like they’re building a new one.

  8. I don’t know why people are so hard on getting rid of the USC. It’s one of the fairer/ progressive taxes

  9. All my promises are lies, all my love is hate, I’m the politician and I decide your fate

    *Lemmy Kilmister

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