This is the question on which his record at the helm of the state finances must be judged.
“Does hiking taxes help during a crisis?” Gript presses Finance Minister Michael McGrath on carbon tax hikes, and how he plans to help those in energy poverty.
Would require “reasonable access to cash.”
Could add €180 to monthly mortgage repayments.
Completely futile.
This is, and ever was, goodboyism. The politics of getting a pat on the head, and making the pat on the head a virtue.
BEN SCALLAN: Despite alarm bells about the energy crisis already being sounded, the government decided to put up the tax on certain kinds of candles earlier this year, making life that much harder in the event of potential blackouts this winter:
Foresight, or lack thereof.
Just because political realities demand something, that does not make the “something” a good or wise idea.
Oversight.
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