Up 11.6% in year
There’s a strong argument that we could make the poorest people in Ireland better off by taxing their incomes at a higher rate, while drastically cutting the taxes that actually drive up the cost of living, like VAT and fuel duties.
The country is rarely able to have more than one major issue debated concurrently. Right now, immigration is the issue dominating the airwaves.
From the Union point of view, a Government is rarely weaker than when it is about to face the electorate.
In the cacophony of EU criticism, it is easy to forget that Hungary is one of Europe’s most enduring economic success stories. The unfolding recession has not changed that.
They shouldn’t do tax cuts at all: They should do tax rebates. And they should do them in January.
“This is something we look at very regularly”: Irish Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe says he doesn’t believe that the Irish government’s various construction projects are significantly contributing to cost inflation.
Fuel, hospitality and hairdressing all set to increase
“middle class people in Ireland don’t protest about money, they only protest about do-gooder stuff”
The Minister for Housing is, like the whalers of yore, a sudden convert to the cause of conservation:
In all of this, the Irish banks for all their sins are simply piggy in the middle
“High-tech bank notes.”