Screw them screwing me
We have a budget next week. Be still my beating heart! It's really not so much a budget as a weasely list of excuses as to why they are robbing us blind. If they reduce our deductions by a fiver … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Budget
Budget 2016
Meh! The usual massive non-event. Millions being set aside to spend on the 2016 "celebrations". What a fucking waste. Bits of tax cuts here and there that I don't understand. A couple of euro increase in the pension [be still … Continue reading →
Dealing with shite
We have a budget later today. We also have an election coming up in the next few months. Put the two together and we know straight off that it's going to be a "giveaway" budget. There will presumably be all … Continue reading →
Tending the Golden Goose
So the Irish Anti-Smoker Industry has its collective snout back in the trough again? It wants a levy placed on the tobacco companies profits and an extra 50 cent tax on cigarettes? Dick Puddlecote has already demolished the logic of … Continue reading →
Here comes an election
We had a Spring Statement yesterday. You might well ask what a Spring Statement is? Its real name is a "We in gubmint have been screwing you within an inch of your lives, but we've just realised there is an … Continue reading →
