Asked if he accepts that carbon tax is unpopular with the public, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says it’s a tax that “needs to be explained” to people. He says in a few years carbon tax will be bringing in “important and significant” amounts of revenue for the State.
Yearly increase.
“Our leadership class will gladly cripple your family financially with measures that don’t save a single polar bear, but which will make your granny’s living-room feel like the North Pole”
The government says they are on your side but…… it doesn’t feel like that here.
Unjust.
There goes his invitation to the Late Late Show.
A great green carbuncle on the national backside.
Voters are anxious
39% of funds allocated elsewhere
Targets set abroad
In an effort to soften the unpopular impact of carbon taxes, the green political lobby have coined the terms “Climate Justice” and “a just transition”.
The country is rarely able to have more than one major issue debated concurrently. Right now, immigration is the issue dominating the airwaves.