To read the opposite side of this debate, with my colleague John McGuirk, click here _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Buying a home is by far the most difficult and stressful purchase most people will ever make. Scrimping and saving for a deposit; traipsing around to view houses; persuading the bank to […]
“The majority of homeowners are likely to see either a decrease or no change.”
The IMF said raising taxes would be necessary to fund investments in human and physical capital.
Despite the Irish elite’s fawning attitude to the American Democrats, it would seem that the Biden administration is paying them no heed. One of the reasons that the Woke corporations – and their dependents in countries such as Ireland – hated Trump was that the former U.S. President was attempting to ensure that Ireland and […]
Joe Biden wants a global minimum corporate tax, as you may have heard. Here’s the summary from the Financial Times: The Biden administration is calling for the world’s biggest multinational companies to pay levies to national governments based on their sales in each country, as part of an ambitious proposal for a global minimum tax. […]
A little microcosm of the way the state spends your money, here. At this link, you’ll find a tender document issued by Mayo County Council, seeking a person, persons, or company to author an “LGBTI+ inclusion strategy” for County Mayo. There are a few notable things about the document. First, and most oddly, for a […]
You can imagine my surprise when I received a flyer from someone connected to mywaste.ie informing me that if I do not sign up to some form of paid waste collection process I will be fined. In theory, this is part of a practice of deterring fly-tipping. The fine will not be for illegal dumping […]
A Universal Basic Income, for those of you who don’t know, is a policy idea which would see the Government giving everybody in the country a guaranteed baseline amount of money every month, regardless of their financial circumstances. No matter who you are, you get a fixed amount of income every month from the Government. […]
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During Election 2020, we heard a lot about serious concerns regarding the State’s inability to pay pensions in the future, yet very few of those discussions noted how anti-family this country has become. On RTE’s Prime Time a couple paying €1700 rent a month and doing a 12-hour day including a long commute said they […]