” The richest half a million people in Ireland emit almost the same amount of carbon as the poorest 50% of Irish society, it has been claimed. ”
“It’s hard to see how we can curb these soaring omissions without taxing the wealth that is largely responsible.”
More taxes incoming. I don’t think I would call the top 10% in Ireland “rich”, maybe the top 1% or top 0.1%. When I saw the headlines and some of the article I thought they were speaking about the likes of Michael O’Leary or JP McManus.
>Oxfam said that the “super-rich” are key to the climate story through factors such as their investments and shareholdings in heavily polluting industries
Of course take this with a load of salt – in Oxfam’s methodology if a poor person burns a load of petrol it’s *actually* the fault of the shareholders of the company that sold it to them.
>“It’s hard to see how we can curb these soaring omissions without taxing the wealth that is largely responsible.”
I had no idea that bank account balances were directly linked to C02 emissions.
And that the only way to rectify that and lower these c02 emissions is from a government wealth Tax on 10% of the country.
What is this shite?
“*My coffee comes from south America, I holiday a good few times a year, so what if I have four cars in the drive way, have you ever tried to heat a 2000 sqaure foot house, yeah so what I buy new cloths every week can’t be seen in the same cloths people will think am poor, so what I eat exotic foods from all over the world am the one paying for it, look yes I can afford the solar pannels but they ruin the esthetic of the house, I like nice things, why am I being punished*”
Ban private jets !
😉
Also unless yer sitting on a few million and own a house, with no debt your not that rich ti be fair, in my opinion.
How about going after the large companies that produce products, aimed to be consumed by everyone, tax them hard.
“*Oh no would someone think of the shareholders*”
So more bullshit taxes, huh?
>Firstly, it asked for a tax on rich polluters to close the gap between the super-rich “and the rest of us”.
Or just bring in an EU-wide carbon taxes that affect everyone equally and which lets markets automatically adjust to lower-carbon techniques.
Article aside, I wouldn’t be surprised. I work in aviation and I have never seen so many private jets in Dublin as I do now. Netjets seem to have a massive operation here.
I hate these types of studies where they attribute all emissions to oil companies. Like it’s completely misrepresenting the issue if you say the emissions from every car or plane journey I take are actually BPs emissions. It just feeds into a narrative that ordinary people can do what they want as they are having no impact.
Only answer is….. More Duty/Carbon Tax at the fuel pumps……
Owning 4 cars means nothing, can only drive 1 at a time…
Private Jets have no business to exist. Fly economy.
“More taxes incoming. I don’t think I would call the top 10% in Ireland “rich”, maybe the top 1% or top 0.1%.”
Let me guess? You’re in the top 10% but not in the top 1%?
So you’re just like everyone else, “tax those guys, not ME”??
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” The richest half a million people in Ireland emit almost the same amount of carbon as the poorest 50% of Irish society, it has been claimed. ”
“It’s hard to see how we can curb these soaring omissions without taxing the wealth that is largely responsible.”
More taxes incoming. I don’t think I would call the top 10% in Ireland “rich”, maybe the top 1% or top 0.1%. When I saw the headlines and some of the article I thought they were speaking about the likes of Michael O’Leary or JP McManus.
>Oxfam said that the “super-rich” are key to the climate story through factors such as their investments and shareholdings in heavily polluting industries
Of course take this with a load of salt – in Oxfam’s methodology if a poor person burns a load of petrol it’s *actually* the fault of the shareholders of the company that sold it to them.
EDIT: And if anyone thinks I’m being unfair by focusing on shareholdings when private jets are the real culprit, [Oxfam’s own website](https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/top-5-ways-billionaires-are-driving-climate-change/) shows that about 100% of their excess climate change contribution comes from “investment emissions”
https://preview.redd.it/iik3yr7udh1c1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b82346d18697be417a4434a11a68f8985fa7d2a
>“It’s hard to see how we can curb these soaring omissions without taxing the wealth that is largely responsible.”
I had no idea that bank account balances were directly linked to C02 emissions.
And that the only way to rectify that and lower these c02 emissions is from a government wealth Tax on 10% of the country.
What is this shite?
“*My coffee comes from south America, I holiday a good few times a year, so what if I have four cars in the drive way, have you ever tried to heat a 2000 sqaure foot house, yeah so what I buy new cloths every week can’t be seen in the same cloths people will think am poor, so what I eat exotic foods from all over the world am the one paying for it, look yes I can afford the solar pannels but they ruin the esthetic of the house, I like nice things, why am I being punished*”
Ban private jets !
😉
Also unless yer sitting on a few million and own a house, with no debt your not that rich ti be fair, in my opinion.
How about going after the large companies that produce products, aimed to be consumed by everyone, tax them hard.
“*Oh no would someone think of the shareholders*”
So more bullshit taxes, huh?
>Firstly, it asked for a tax on rich polluters to close the gap between the super-rich “and the rest of us”.
Or just bring in an EU-wide carbon taxes that affect everyone equally and which lets markets automatically adjust to lower-carbon techniques.
Article aside, I wouldn’t be surprised. I work in aviation and I have never seen so many private jets in Dublin as I do now. Netjets seem to have a massive operation here.
I hate these types of studies where they attribute all emissions to oil companies. Like it’s completely misrepresenting the issue if you say the emissions from every car or plane journey I take are actually BPs emissions. It just feeds into a narrative that ordinary people can do what they want as they are having no impact.
Only answer is….. More Duty/Carbon Tax at the fuel pumps……
Owning 4 cars means nothing, can only drive 1 at a time…
Private Jets have no business to exist. Fly economy.
“More taxes incoming. I don’t think I would call the top 10% in Ireland “rich”, maybe the top 1% or top 0.1%.”
Let me guess? You’re in the top 10% but not in the top 1%?
So you’re just like everyone else, “tax those guys, not ME”??