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UNSURPRISINGLY, FINE GAEL is lauding the modest tax cuts introduced by the coalition in last October’s budget.
People who are getting paid this week or next can expect to see a small boost to their pay packets and Fine Gael has produced the video below in which Finance Minister Michael Noonan explains some of the changes.
Unfortunately while there’s lots of practical details and advice from the wise old man of Irish politics there is very little smiling.
In fact, there’s really none at all:
Ah come on now, Michael. Tax cuts are surely something to smile about?
What about Christine Lagarde? Surely her glamour and sophistication could put a smile on your face:
That’s better:
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I got an extra 6 euro in wages this fortnight and they think that’s something to be shouting about!!
I have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life provided that I die this coming Thursday
Look on the bright side Ian, if you do pop your clogs theres always the death gran……….oh, wait, they’ve taken that as well.
If you think the cost of living is high, wait till you check out the cost of dying.
Don’t worry as soon as Gerry “I’m not great at maths” Adams gets into power, there will be massive tax cuts AND spending increases for everyone.
The country will be fooked then.
Oh wait
II’ve noticed the artical with enda kenny talkin about ttip has being takin down journal restrictin freedom of speach again.Ttip is going to be really bad 4 ireland check this out. Http://vimeo.Com/108948150
Tax cuts are irrelevant when you are trying to railroad through a totally corrupt quango that fleeces the irish people for an unfixed amount every year and shovels the immoral funds over to private enterprise, election the sooner the better failed government we need to an election ASAP
And who elected them?
The 1% tax cut is more than the water charges this year, but keep quiet shhhh
This year Mick but next year or maybe the year after?
Mick the 1% cut is more than this year’s water charges?So everyone earns enough to put them into the high rate.
Did you believe Enda when he said minimum wage was €35,000?
Will you give over with the “who elected them” crap Sean L. The “government” the people elected is not the government in power and don’t pretend it is. Only the personalities are there, the promised new politics were a sham and a lie and we did not vote for what is in place today.
exactly…
Even on the minimum wage you get more of a tax cut than you would be paying for water charges.
Feel free to google it
They were elected on their manifesto which turned out to be a bunch of lies, people wont be fooled by them again.
He has nothing to smile about, he’ll be out of a job soon.
Isn’t Noonan funny
When he was Minister for Health he treated Bridget Mc Cole like a dog , but now that he ahs a touch of Cancer , well lo and behold if there isn’t a nice “help group” for him !
The Rubberbandits declared him a Mason on R.T.E. and he never denied it !
Masons are linked with Satanism in the Vatileaks report – just adding this final piece for your perusal !
The masons are not linked to Satanism you muppet.
Dermot,come on man…satanism !!!!!!.
Masons actually do a massive amount of untold charity and support work.
You should drop along to one of their halls.
And No I’m not a mason.
Apart from nut theories, masonry is actually protected in Ireland by our constitution..,,why is that… Also the Masonic lodges in Europe are usually located next the the parliaments of each country.., is the real dail across the road???
Keep studying Sergeant – you have another few levels to go …. tee hee !
Cardinals and Bishops aren’t linked to child abuse either – it’s the priests that were the wrongdoers !
Mike – all religions are good at the bottom – it’s when you get into the higher echelons where the Golden Calf is being forged that all sorts of wrong-doings occur . Same in Political Parties – good indeed great footsoldiers in all parties – but look what rises to the top in Dail Eireann – Gluttons of the highest order !
Whether Masonry is linked to satanism or not – you have to ask – what are both or either of them doing in the Vatican …One God ????
Thanks for the pull-up, by the way, Mike…..
Was that a typo Dermot “satanism” or shatterism?
I don’t know Snorre – I’m too busy laughing at the question to give you an answer .
Speaking of Alana Shatter ….
There is a book of laws in Judaism that is called the Talmud – or something like that – a friend of mine was telling me about it – he said and I didn’t confirm this so take it with a pich of whatever , but according to him there are passages in the Tome that promote Paedophilia among the priest class – and what is circumcision but genital mutilation ….
Oh religion – the ravings of the living based on the words of the dead !
Dermot…your thoughts and ideas are becoming more whacky by the day. Do some more research before you post…
I wasn’t having a go at you Dermot and apologies if it seems so as it wasn’t in any way intended.
I only know about the bottom tier and see some of the work they do.
(You’ll have to bear with me as I’m recovering from surgery at the moment and out of sorts :) )
Not at all Mike…. it’s cool !
we are each each others keepers …hope you recover soon !
Cuppan – research already done … You don’t think that the Vatican would escape my gaze now do you ?
Hidden History is a favourite of mine – the dark history not the telly show – although I would recommend no greater telly show to anyone of any age !
Here an oddity I noticed as a child in mass …
“Do you reject Satan …blah blah blah ” – The priest always asks the question – but does he answer it himself ?
That’s the kinda thing you have to look out for when the National debt goes from 30 odd billion in 1998 to North of 200 billion less than 20 years later –
In line with Inflation ?
We can only hope for a change, but whether it will be for the better will have to be seen!
Look at how smiley himself and Christine Le Moneybags are when they get together.
Are people still calling Endope telling him they have been paid too much.
Enda admitted it was only a ‘turn of phrase’ or in plain English he was lying.
That must have been the Gardaí – who didn’t pay their full tax because of a clerical error some years ago – Reported on the front page of the Sindo .
Am I the only one who can’t stand this mans voice?
Every time he opens his mouth he’s sounds like he’s talking down to us
It’s his put up and shut up attitude
He’s actually resembling one of the Animal farm caricatures more and more each day.
Looks like one and sounds like one.
Of course he likes tax cuts, they usually benefit the Michael Noonans of this state the most i.e. the haves and have mores.
Average industrial wage of 35000 gets back €395.
And what does Michael Noonan ‘get back’ on his €157,540 salary ?
Is 395 on 35000 not a benefit – just in your original comment you suggested only Michael Noonan gets benefitl. They’re all paid too much.. just like these crooks http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-30204080
More money for Bonds is my guess Were …
Remember what the bankers in the Anglo Tapes said about politicians – “Two year money ” – and they were laughing at them ….
They gave us the first clue on the Road to the Purge !
@ SY:”just in your original comment you suggested only Michael Noonan gets benefit”
Lets have a look, shall we?
My original comment: “Of course he likes tax cuts, they usually benefit the Michael Noonans of this state THE MOST”
Don’t misrepresent me SY, it just makes you look dishonest.
Tax cuts help all working people no? Or maybe you don’t care about them
I’m not a defender for this government but why blame this government for taking difficult decisions which was a result of Fianna Fáil mismanagement of our economy. The Irish people elected them 3 times.
Time for the electorate to take responsibility. Roll on 500 red thumbs. Sorry but I’m just stating an uncomfortable truth.
Give us the chance as quickly as possible !
@tom
It not the uncomfortable truth that’s the problem here, Its the clear choices this government rejected while imposing Tax after Tax knowing they had other options which would have impacted far less on the lower and middle income family’s. .
Well why does this Government continue with the same attitudes as the previous shower. The waste has continued. The same incompetence exists. As good as no reform has taken place and best of all this shower made no difficult choices as you like to put it. They only applied the Trioka program that FF set up. FG/Lab have been in tatters since the FF/ Troika plan finished stumbling from one controversy to the next. Now like the previous government they are trying to buy the electorate with pathetic little incentives.
How can the Government claim to have taken difficult decisions when they let Germany’s Parliament discuss an irish Budget before any irish Politician saw it – is Enda letting Angela and the German finance Ministry set irish Budgets ?
Is he only a poster boy ?
The problem is that they didn’t take any difficult decisions did they? They promised to, but the minute they won they bowed down to the troika and made us all take it up the A*se. The difficult decisions would have been acting on the mandate they were given at the GE by the people that elected them… Instead they handed over the keys to the Dail to the troika (agents of the bond holders) and stuck their noses in the trough of expenses while creating the biggest, most corrupt quango in the history of the state and stuffing it full of their mates. While focusing on those least able to pay being forced to pay for those most able as usual.
Were you alive in 2011 Tom. If you were you might remember that the f*ckups of FF were to be repaired by inflicting the pain of the recovery on those responsible and not on the general public.
And who elected them 3 times?
Sorry but if you want to party party party on the credit card then eventually there is a price to be paid.
It’s always someone else’s fault isn’t it?
Never mine though .
Tom
It was private individuals and banks that partied on the credit card and bonus culture of the fiat currency ….
Most Irish people were just buying a house to get out of spiralling rents ….
Again Tom, I have never voted FF in my life but based on the same premise of electing any government, the people elected FF because of what they were told and not because they were privy to what was going on. We were told, not only by our own elected representatives but by the leaders of the EU and the USA among others, that we were an example to the rest of the world. Why would we simple folk want to rock the boat?
The answer is a big fat YES, because with Ireland having the Euro that means that all our finances are taken out of our hands and done by the Germany government. The reason is because we share the Euro and use it but we never own it, so all our finances are done by a third party the same ones that control the euro. Always after or with monetary union there is always “political union”, the word for that is Federation and that is next?
More like the smile on the face of a tiger contemplating lunch.
That’s a forced smile the smile of a man who is running out of time. Filling the coffers before he goes retires that is.
The haugheys family a prime example of keeping hold of wealth gained from corruption and still they leech off the tax payers with that look my daddy did Notting wrong.
Michael might think he is different I don’t .
He is a total pig of a man .
You’d think with all his bondholder cash Mr Noonan might buy himself a toothbrush.
The reason why Michael Noonan isn’t smiling about tax cuts is because he doesn’t really believe in tax cuts. Michael Noonan is not a pro-enterprise Minister for Finance. He is a life-long public sector employee, he had (and still has) a permanent job as a schoolteacher before he went into politics, he has no understanding of or empathy with the small businessperson or the entrepreneur.
Tax cuts mean that the public sector gets to commandeer less of the money in the country overall (even though it will receive more money as the economy grows), as more money is used instead by the private sector to create growth and employment in the nation. Tax cuts mean that the public sector controls less of the economy as the private sector grows. Therefore, Michael Noonan instinctively drags his feet and puts roadblocks in the way of real pro-enterprise reductions of the enormous burden of taxation in Ireland.
This is why it was a real shame that Richard Bruton’s heave against Enda Kenny in 2010 failed, because if Bruton was now in control of the Department of the Taoiseach (or maybe the Department of Finance) it is arguable that the Government would have been far more pro-active in terms of reducing the anti-enterprise, anti-growth and anti-employment tax burden in our country.
Richard Bruton sat with an Ansbacher Dossier on his desk for two years …..
That guy is out and should have been sacked by Enda on sight …even Haughey had the cop-on to distance himself from O’Doherty when he was involved in what many saw as a cover-up !
Being a single father who shares custody of my kids, i lost my tax single parents tax credit so I’m down 30 euro per week but hey, i got a fiver back. Go f#@k youself michael !!!!! Rant over.
He mustn’t want you to spend it on your kids Francis…
Don’t worry about smiling Michael, we have a little more take home this month. So thank you
What you have to remember about this creature is that when the Troika rolled into town in every other country except Ireland he was very much part of the set-up , and we have the National Media reports of Enda running as a spy for the Troika during the Bailout …getting info of Blabbermouth Beverley and then running back to the troika to reveal Ireland’s position – why Fianna fail did not highlight this before the last election tells one all one needs to know about Ireland’s Troika Partys.
We voted for them because they promised change, transparency and so on,change alright ,our lives got worse.people standing up for these people obviously have not suffered from austerity. yeah,its OK that kids go to school hungry and don’t have proper clothing,you selfish so and so’s.destroy all parties ,all of them,come the election.
He could eat an apple through a tennis racquet, best he doesn’t smile
Can`t blame him for not smiling that often really, for when he does, it looks like he has a mouthful of Sugar puffs
Jaysus he is scary… What a great government we have, they promise not to do more cuts on people but they just create new high taxes like property and water charges as well as talk about compulsory health insurance for everyone and expect us to say that they are great. Do they take us for being so stupid?
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