OH MY OH MY: THE IRISH MIDDLE CLASSES LOVE THEIR MICKEY MONEY
Jul 22nd, 2010 by Conor McCabe
Had to laugh at the excuses as to why Child Benefit cannot be means-tested/taxed.
Apparently the Department of Finance is saying that such a tax could be unfair and problematic.
Is that the criteria for the Department of Finance scuppering a tax? That it’s unfair? Problematic? Couldn’t reform the tax credit system to take allowance of child benefit?
Seems to me the real reason is that the middle classes love their child benefit and intend holding on to it.
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on day to day necessities…
yep - no such things as unfair taxes in good old I-y-er-land
haha!
Yeah! I mean, the argument Seán, that it is fair to cut child benefit by €16 a month for all families, rich and poor, and yet unfair to means-test those cuts instead. Ugh! What a country.
Laughed my head off this morning when I read the heading. Same thought had occurred to me, but you put it so much more… succinctly
kudos a chara.
cheers WBS. 53 people were sent to jail in 2008 for non-payment of their TV licence, but the Dept. of Finance thinks means-testing Child Benefit is unfair. what a fucking shower of middle class cunts.
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