{"id":92,"date":"2009-02-27T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-11-15T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T20:14:05","slug":"did-the-government-read-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/did-the-government-read-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Government read my blog ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dail<\/p>\n

Well,\u00a0 I certainly hope so. I was just listening to Pat Carey the government Chief Whip on the radio conceding that it may be necessary to implement a third taxation rate!\u00a0 My goodness, what an absolute stroke of genius.\u00a0 If you look at my previous post you will see that I have suggested not just a third tax rate or possibly 15 or 20 Incremental tax rates. Now it transpires that Labour have decided to support the same policy as have Fine Gael.<\/p>\n

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It really would make you wonder what have the people within the Department of Finance or at the revenue Commissioners been doing all these years?\u00a0 Why it took them so long to come up with a simple solution to what is a simple problem i.e. an equitable income tax system, raises its own questions. I believe that while the majority of people in this country were making what could be deemed to be a reasonable living the voices of the less well-off and marginalised within our society were quite simply ignored.\u00a0 An equitable tax system was not considered to be necessary and even if it were, it most certainly was not urgent.<\/p>\n

Alas, now that things have changed so dramatically and a huge number of people within the country are finding it very difficult to make ends meet, the question of an equitable income tax system now has a new sense of urgency.\u00a0 It should not have waited until now but that being said, better late than never.\u00a0 Indeed, that comment can be made about many of the challenges that face the Country.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe the government should read the rest of my blog???<\/p>\n

At the end of the day the problem with common sense\u00a0 is that,\u00a0 it is simply not that common!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I certainly hope so. I was just listening to Pat Carey the government Chief Whip on the radio conceding that it may be necessary to implement a third taxation rate! My goodness, what an absolute stroke of genius. If you look at my previous post you will see that I have suggested not just a third tax rate or possibly 15 or 20 Incremental tax rates. Now it transpires that Labour have decided to support the same policy as have Fine Gael. [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"mh-magazine-slider":false,"mh-magazine-content":false,"mh-magazine-large":false,"mh-magazine-medium":false,"mh-magazine-small":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"eblaney","author_link":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Well, I certainly hope so. I was just listening to Pat Carey the government Chief Whip on the radio conceding that it may be necessary to implement a third taxation rate! My goodness, what an absolute stroke of genius. If you look at my previous post you will see that I have suggested not just…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-887124-4052164.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}