Rectal Fistitude
So what do I think of the budget? For a start it was probably the least equitable budget in the history of the state. Virtually every measure was introduced without any mention of ability to pay. Not...
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It’s not a joke. Days after a budget that fleeced the elderly, the disabled and just about anyone struggling to survive, our gubmint gives itself a wee Christmas present. Free iPads for all TDs. Except...
View ArticleLube Day
Happy days. Yup. Tomorrow is the day we have been eagerly anticipating. For tomorrow is that annual festival of the National Gang Rape, otherwise know as Budget Day. Today is the day we all stock up...
View ArticleDuh
Once again, our gubmint has managed to screw everything up. They are trying to play up their grand scheme of giving free medical treatment to all under fives, and are trying to play down the loss of...
View ArticleSleight of hand
Today is Budget Day. For a while now we have been hearing all about how this is to be an “end of austerity” budget. There are all sorts of promises that the tax burden will be eased and how they …...
View ArticleHere comes an election
We had a Spring Statement yesterday. You might well ask what a Spring Statement is? Its real name is a "We in gubmint have been screwing you within an inch of your lives, but we've just realised there...
View ArticleTending the Golden Goose
So the Irish Anti-Smoker Industry has its collective snout back in the trough again? It wants a levy placed on the tobacco companies profits and an extra 50 cent tax on cigarettes? Dick Puddlecote has...
View ArticleDealing with shite
We have a budget later today. We also have an election coming up in the next few months. Put the two together and we know straight off that it's going to be a "giveaway" budget. There will presumably...
View ArticleBudget 2016
Meh! The usual massive non-event. Millions being set aside to spend on the 2016 "celebrations". What a fucking waste. Bits of tax cuts here and there that I don't understand. A couple of euro increase...
View ArticleScrew them screwing me
We have a budget next week. Be still my beating heart! It's really not so much a budget as a weasely list of excuses as to why they are robbing us blind. If they reduce our deductions by a fiver …...
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