Former Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe is off to the World Bank and now Simon Harris is Minister for Finance. The mainstream media are in general weeping over the loss of ‘safe pair of hands’ Donohoe. This should raise alarm bells as my general view is, if the media likes you, you are not doing it right.
First, Simon Harris is now Minister for Finance. This baffles me. Does Harris have any understanding of basic economics? Fine Gael is supposed to represent the interests of the Irish middle-class, the small business owner, the farmers and the professionals. Yet they have presided over Ireland becoming the country that punishes the middle-class and their temerity for seeking to turn a profit. The Irish middle-class carry the heaviest tax burden in all OECD countries, bar South Korea. There is nothing to say that Harris will be any better.
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