It’s not as if concrete is needed to solve the massive housing crisis 🤔.
Oh yes. Let’s introduce a concrete levy at a time where construction materials has reached unprecedented levels of cost inflation and amid a crippling housing crisis that is leaving many of our young people homeless. It’s not like concrete is used much in construction anyway.
It’s kind of worrying that they don’t understand the basics of tax and spending.
Just remember billions of euros are lost and thousands of lives were ruined just to line the pockets of a few individuals.
If they could tax you for having a shit they would
I mean like what was the government meant to do? These were the options:
1. No/minimal redress for those impacted by the mica scandal -> government gets branded as unsympathetic, particularly to rural people.
2. Redress paid out of general taxation -> people rightly complain that those who carried out the scam are getting away scot free while everyone else is picking up the tab, similar to the child abuse settlement with the Church.
3. Redress is paid for by a levy on construction goods -> industry just passes the increase to consumers and we end up where we are now.
4. Redress is paid by a tax on construction profits -> suddenly all construction profits miraculously disappear into higher executive salaries and the government has to pick up the tab from general taxation so we’re pack to problem 2 but with extra incompetence.
Isn’t this a good thing though? Stronger regulations on the actual material that caused this huge problem in the first place.
Let’s tax breath, mouth breathers exhale .4 more CO2
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It’s not as if concrete is needed to solve the massive housing crisis 🤔.
Oh yes. Let’s introduce a concrete levy at a time where construction materials has reached unprecedented levels of cost inflation and amid a crippling housing crisis that is leaving many of our young people homeless. It’s not like concrete is used much in construction anyway.
[https://twitter.com/PearseDoherty/status/1446474586086912000](https://twitter.com/PearseDoherty/status/1446474586086912000) Pearse Doherty/Sinn Fein fighting for the state to pay 100% of the damages in oct 2021
It’s kind of worrying that they don’t understand the basics of tax and spending.
Just remember billions of euros are lost and thousands of lives were ruined just to line the pockets of a few individuals.
If they could tax you for having a shit they would
I mean like what was the government meant to do? These were the options:
1. No/minimal redress for those impacted by the mica scandal -> government gets branded as unsympathetic, particularly to rural people.
2. Redress paid out of general taxation -> people rightly complain that those who carried out the scam are getting away scot free while everyone else is picking up the tab, similar to the child abuse settlement with the Church.
3. Redress is paid for by a levy on construction goods -> industry just passes the increase to consumers and we end up where we are now.
4. Redress is paid by a tax on construction profits -> suddenly all construction profits miraculously disappear into higher executive salaries and the government has to pick up the tab from general taxation so we’re pack to problem 2 but with extra incompetence.
Isn’t this a good thing though? Stronger regulations on the actual material that caused this huge problem in the first place.
Let’s tax breath, mouth breathers exhale .4 more CO2