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Taxes can serve all sorts of positive policy goals including redistribution through a tax on property, which constitutes three quarters of private wealth. by Michael Smith Learning to love property tax requires a perspective on the purposes and types, of taxation. The purposes of taxation include financing government spending; and promotion of greater equality, […]
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Public sector not reforming or cutting – as taxes rise Health service inflation second highest in EU ‘spending on health has shrunk by just 128 million euro over the last two years’. ‘Between December 2005 and mid-2012, cumulative Irish consumer price inflation (CPI) was 9.5%. Health CPI was 21.4%’ With an early […]
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PAC doing a Mahon/Dunlop – in Docklands The Public Accounts Committee ignores dozens of other schemes and the position of Treasury Holding, in its focus on the Glass Bottle debacle By Michael Smith As the Public Accounts Committee allegedly gets stuck in to Docklands, I am struck how – in the same way […]
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The culture of culture in Dublin is secretive, nepotistic, child-like, elitist, feeble, spendthrift and bureaucratic – Mannix Flynn
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Could I write something, the Village editor asked, “about the difficulty of getting The Frontman considered in Irish (and other?) media?” And already I can hear the dry laughter of other writers, who can only dream of such “difficulty”. I was interviewed about my critical book on Bono twice in one day on TV3; I […]
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Mechanised despoliation may cease, though pervasive exceptions proposed and EU Commission sceptical. By Tony Lowes (2011) Devastating the Bogs In the end for a while even Ming the Merciless, TD, zipped his mouth, allowing the under-informed media to report a ‘cessation’ of immemorial turf-cutting in designated conservation areas – affecting “6,500” turf-cutters and an estimated […]