About €11bn, seems like good value all things considered
Generally feels like a good budget to me and I’ve personally benefited far more than I expected to tbh.
My only gripe, and I don’t really have solid data to back it up, is that many businesses seemed to increase prices to cover increasing costs like their energy bills. My gym specifically highlighted it’s energy costs when upping the price.
So if they are getting up to 10k to cover the cost of energy increases which they’ve already increased prices to cover, it feels like we are paying for it twice.
Looks like I am quitting my job.
The biggest giveaway in that list is to businesses, not people.
Well yeah anything we didn’t get before is a positive.
But nothing for the housing crisis, could have hammered derelict property hoarders with huge taxes to force them to use them or lose them, could have got a first time buyers scheme up and running, etc.
Free contraception, fine, but you can get 6 months of your pill for 15quid, whilst patients on asthma literally destroying their lungs and taking asthma attacks because they cant afford an €80 inhaler per month.
A lot of easy wins in the budget but it’s all just sticking plasters. Zero ambition
Concrete levy increases costs of every single construction, from your little extension to your farmers building a shed to a school to houses.
More money going out of the pot than coming in, means eventually there will be some extra tax lumped on the working folk to cover these cost.
We still havent yet got the bill for the covid payments given to those who lost their jobs and all the pubs that got massive grants to stay closed during lockdowns.
The bill will come due and austerity will be worse than 2008-2012.
Also its such a sham that all the energy providers advertise they generate 100% renewable energy and yet they hike prices ? Now the government creates another vacuum like the housing rental market by offering taxpayer money as a grant to cover the price gouging.
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Why look for only negatives
It was a largely positive budget.
>but what’s the negatives?
I see you’re a glass half empty sort of person.
About €11bn, seems like good value all things considered
Generally feels like a good budget to me and I’ve personally benefited far more than I expected to tbh.
My only gripe, and I don’t really have solid data to back it up, is that many businesses seemed to increase prices to cover increasing costs like their energy bills. My gym specifically highlighted it’s energy costs when upping the price.
So if they are getting up to 10k to cover the cost of energy increases which they’ve already increased prices to cover, it feels like we are paying for it twice.
Looks like I am quitting my job.
The biggest giveaway in that list is to businesses, not people.
Well yeah anything we didn’t get before is a positive.
But nothing for the housing crisis, could have hammered derelict property hoarders with huge taxes to force them to use them or lose them, could have got a first time buyers scheme up and running, etc.
Free contraception, fine, but you can get 6 months of your pill for 15quid, whilst patients on asthma literally destroying their lungs and taking asthma attacks because they cant afford an €80 inhaler per month.
A lot of easy wins in the budget but it’s all just sticking plasters. Zero ambition
Concrete levy increases costs of every single construction, from your little extension to your farmers building a shed to a school to houses.
More money going out of the pot than coming in, means eventually there will be some extra tax lumped on the working folk to cover these cost.
We still havent yet got the bill for the covid payments given to those who lost their jobs and all the pubs that got massive grants to stay closed during lockdowns.
The bill will come due and austerity will be worse than 2008-2012.
Also its such a sham that all the energy providers advertise they generate 100% renewable energy and yet they hike prices ? Now the government creates another vacuum like the housing rental market by offering taxpayer money as a grant to cover the price gouging.
Is the school books all school books?