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It all breaks down to economics-- bin tax

category national | bin tax / household tax / water tax | opinion/analysis author Thursday September 25, 2003 21:56author by 78author email b at j dot comauthor phone 089 67899876 Report this post to the editors

This all breaks down to economics. And at the moment the socialist party is just being ignorant.

Firslty, may I say that I am a socialist. I want to see an Ireland, that is free from equality. An Ireland with a health service like in france. Public transport like in Germany. School and universities like in finland and norway.

But all of this can only be created by, money. This money has to come from some where. The present situation, of the money beig funded in the form of double taxation is wrong.

This money should be coming from the upper and middle classes, in the form of progressive taxation. But this will piss them off? As can be seen in Venuzeala. That is really what Tony Blair is at in the UK. I belive he is a socialist at heart. But he knows that you cannot do anything, without keeping the middle classes onside. That is why he is talking aboout all that bullshit concerning foundation hospitals.


Yes corporation tax needs to be increased in Ireland, it is too low. But you cannot increase ten fold, as some socialiat party members suggest. As then you will not have any job creation. You will have massive unemployment, and then you will spend all your time in power dealing with unemployment problems, not ridding the inequailty which exists now.

We should be modeling our society on france. But they even have to pay for private medical care

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   right on...     swissmiss    Thu Sep 25, 2003 22:54 
   Golly what a well informed article     Badman    Fri Sep 26, 2003 02:00 
   ha ha ha (stephen hawking voice)     random input    Fri Sep 26, 2003 05:15 
   not a socialist called josephine!     har har har de har    Fri Sep 26, 2003 17:26 
   where does money come from     socialist    Fri Sep 26, 2003 17:39 
   Nationalisation will never work-- we cannot rid ourself of markets, no matter how much we would wish     78    Fri Sep 26, 2003 23:38 
   Christ     Ois    Sat Sep 27, 2003 02:46 
   so when will the revoultion begin!!!!!     78    Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:37 
   ha ha ha (mark II)     random input    Sat Sep 27, 2003 20:03 
 10   Christ (mark 2)     Ois    Sun Sep 28, 2003 22:47 
 11   When will the revoultion begin     b@j.com    Mon Sep 29, 2003 22:39 
 12   there will be no revolution     hhjh    Tue Sep 30, 2003 23:43 


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