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EU flexing its muscles

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They are dipping their greedy little paws into my pocket again.

They are to introduce a new “household charge”.  The bastards.

For once, I don’t really blame the gubmint.  Oh no.  This little drop of pick-pocketing comes directly from our new overlords – those cunts in Brussels.

It could be argues that some taxes have a legitimate purpose.  Income tax is supposed to go towards the salaries of teachers and nurses and other such.  Car tax is nominally supposed to pay for the upkeep of roads.  [I’m having a very difficult time here trying to keep a straight face.]  The television licence is supposed to go towards providing television and so on.  Now I know that’s all a huge steaming pile of shite, but there is a perverted sort of logic there.

Where I start to get pissed off is when they try to charge me for nothing other than the fact that they want money.  This latest move is a case in point.  They are trying to tax me for the simple reason that I exist.  I live in the country and therefore I have to pay their fucking tax and I get sweet fuck all in return.  What’s worse is that the old farmer in his corrugated-iron roofed house in the West of Ireland is to pay the same as the Slazengers in Powerscourt House.  I am going to pay the same amount out of my pension as Bono does out of his tax-avoided millions.  Very fucking equitable. 

The really galling thing though is the fact that it is the first in a long line of charges imposed not by the gubmint but by the Brussels wankers.  They are like that insect that finds a grub, paralyses it and then lays eggs inside its body.  We have been sold out to Brussels and they are now going to feed off us because there is no escape.  And where is this new tax going?  Ultimately it is going to pay off the German investors who were fucking idiotic enough to invest in a dud Anglo Irish Bank.

This new charge is only the beginning.  Next up the road is the Property Tax where they charge us because we happen to have a house [that we have slaved all our lives for] and Water Charges.  Doubtless there will be others.    It wouldn’t surprise me if they imposed a Grave Tax so they can carry on milking us after we are dead.

One interesting point though – in theory they can cut off our water if we don’t pay the water charge, and could conceivably evict us from our homes for not paying property tax [though that would never get past the courts].  But how to they remove us from being?  Shoot us?  That means they will introduce a bullet tax.

Cunts.

 

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EU flexing its muscles — 10 Comments

  1. no other name for them really is there pulling that silly stunt (and it rhymes too)
    here they tried to levy a cat collar tag tax, like the dog collar tag tax and were going to try to include indoor cats that cannot go outside, it was to cover all the damage the ood feline does poo’ing in the garden. didn’t happen there was pretty close to a revolt. be damned if i was going to pay it!!

  2. Cat – They tried to tax cats?  Haven’t heard that one before.  As for cat poo – have they never heard of fertilizer?

  3. Mr. Hogan said the household charge was “for local services in the community”? But I pay a refuse disposal company for taking my rubbish and recyclables away, and I pay the ESB for a bi-monthly standing charge, and I pay motor taxation when I put a vehicle on the road, and I pay An Post for stamps to deliver my mail. So what other ‘local services’ is the Minister alluding to that I don’t seem to be paying at present? 

    You got words right Grandad when you described it as a Being Tax. Yup, they’re going to tax us for existing. Using philosophical jargon from the 1960s, I therefore call it an Existentialist Tax. Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Paul Tillich, Hannah Arendt, Soeren Kirkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel and other existentialist thinkers never envisaged this kind of multi-state extortion. Philosophers of Ireland and philosophers of Europe, put yer thinking caps on and unite intellectually against the existentialist tax being brought in as part of a EU-IMF deal.

  8. When I was growing up or sideways or something, on Seapoint Avenue (Blackrock) there was a fairly posh house that had the windows facing the street bricked up. I asked my mother what that was about and she told me that it was the owners response to an attempt by the British government to levy a tax on the amount of light the residents were receiving through each window. If it’s a true story, then I hope the current bunch don’t read this comment or they’ll be counting windows before the weeks out.

  9. Stas – Welcome!  That is the standard practice.  People will say the tax is only 100 a year so they won’t complain.  Then of course it goes up by 100% year after year and by then it’s too late.

    Paulo1 – That is a true story.  Many of the big old houses around the country have bricked up windows which were plastered over so they look just like recesses in a blank wall. 

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