Fine Gael to prioritise tax cuts for middle-income earners in next budget

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  1. I’d be happy to pay higher taxes if my money wasn’t being wasted by organisations like the HSE

  2. – We can’t go to to A&E because of the massive queues.

    – There is a GP shortage all over the country

    – Garda are not answering all 999 calls and when they do they don’t have resources to deal with them

    – Schools are not been given the resources to properly support children with additional needs

    Those topics don’t even touch on the housing disaster.

    Fix these before giving a tax cut

  3. They tried it in 2016, again in 2020 but somehow third time’s the charm…

    Given the demographic they’re targeting, I don’t see why they just don’t deal with Childcare costs instead. Have to rub that fiver around I guess.

  4. Why? I’m a middle income earner. The less they tax, the less they spend on essential public services. This makes everything more expensive anyway. I just don’t understand the logic. I’m happy to pay more tax if we get things like childcare, cheap public transport and bike lanes??? The man is infuriating.

  5. I have no issue paying taxes but in all honesty what do our taxes actually pay for? Our public services are a state.

  6. Giving everyone this extra money is just fanning the flames of inflation, I would have been in favor of higher tax of you would guarantee the money would be well spent on infrastructure but some chance of that

  7. >“The average two-income couple, both working full-time, pays €800 a year less in income tax than they would if Sinn Féin had done the last budget.”

    They couldnt be more afraid of Sinn Fein. Which should push them left

  8. Are people fcking here, saying it’s great, how the fck 10-20e a week is great?

    That’s like fck all honesty filling up nearly at 2.20e, eletricity, heating went up by like 500e minimum a year, just from last six months, food crawling up by few % which is like 10-30e extra a week on a shopping, and then there’s people saying sure a bump will be coming.

    That’s like nothing by the time few euro saves most prob be spending extra grand a year, for same everyday living.

  9. Unless they can give me an extra couple of hundred a week don’t bother insulting me with a tax cut.

    Fix the flipping housing crisis. This actually means economic measures aimed at reducing the price of houses, which runs contrary to FG policy so will never happen.

    Sort out health. It’s a nightmare even for paying customers.

    Go way with your paltry tax cut offer. Headline grabbing.

  10. >and retaining the first-time buyers grant of up to €30,000

    Were they not told in the last few days that this was a primary driver in house prices?

  11. 20 years (hell, 40 years) too late. I’ll vote for the shinners this time. Adleast they seem like normal dishonest people.
    Edit: spelling

  12. Unless they plan to put USC in the bin, any decrease in tax will be barely in line with inflation and therefore won’t really be noticed.

  13. I think this may be aiming at offsetting inflation but it’s not going to make an appreciable difference.

  14. My elderly dad had to go to A&E a while back and wasn’t seen after waiting there for 8 hours. He had to leave. I don’t want an extra 5er a week. I want a decent health service and for all my friends to not have to leave the country.

  15. >At the same time, the Dáil debated a Sinn Féin Private Members Bill calling for an emergency budget.

    >The Government rejected the motion as populist, with Junior Minister Sean Fleming repeating that the Government would not be forced into any new measures before the budget in October.

    It is populist. Read the fucking room you idiots, populism is rising around the world because of out of touch elites who don’t understand the actual reality of life for people.

    And all around the world, establishment political parties are losing to populists… and these clowns think “populist” is a slur or something?

  16. Great, that few quid a week will really offset the high cost of living.

    I personally have no issue paying high taxes if it means affordable, housing, Healthcare, childcare (I don’t have children but for those that do). It would be great if everyone one could pay their fare share in taxes too. People like to blame all the free money given to the poors as the cause for global inflation but the reason free money was give to the poor is because money earned by the extremely wealthy isn’t being trickled back down into the economy. The very rich hoarding money is causing inflation (besides some other global events)

  17. What the fuck dude, i’ll gladly pay double of what i pay in taxes if it means i get to live in a house

  18. For a party who always go on about the lack of a SF magic money tree they sure do manage to find plenty of money out of nowhere for tax cuts, potentially joining NATO, and grants to help developers sell houses which push up property prices.

  19. I’d be okay paying golf of my salary in tax like we do if we got some sort of working system out if it.

    However, I’m not okay sith the current system of take huge amount of tax, and sqander it all on incompetent shit.

    Keep your bribe FF and FG. You’re gone at the next election.

  20. Yeah but why though? That money could be far better spent on you know solving the housing crisis or improving the healthcare system, but I guess FG is gonna be FG.

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