The next Government

[SoundMan]

in 2020 election campaign SF said they would abolish USC, This morning on 96fm MLMD said they would not abolish it if in govt next time out,
But would look at possibly adjusting it as years go by,

Are you sure about that jimmy? Reason I ask is USC is seen as a progessive tax. I'm open to correction but I think SF said they would tailor the USC so as not to have it cut in so early, or top out so relatively low.
Would appreciate a link to where SF said they would abolish it (as I think it has some benefits). Thanks in advance.

 

[jimmym]

Are you sure about that jimmy? Reason I ask is USC is seen as a progessive tax. I'm open to correction but I think SF said they would tailor the USC so as not to have it cut in so early, or top out so relatively low.
Would appreciate a link to where SF said they would abolish it (as I think it has some benefits). Thanks in advance.

2020 election manifesto,

 

[SoundMan]

2020 election manifesto,

I just checked it jimmy and it says (as I thought)
"We will deliver for workers and hardpressed families – by abolishing theUSC on the first €30,000 earned,saving workers up to €700 per annum."

https://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2020/Giving_Workers_and_Families_a_Break_-_A_Manifesto_for_Change.pdf

Do you now accept that SF in fact did NOT say they would abolish the USC?

 

[jimmym]

I just checked it jimmy and it says (as I thought)
"We will deliver for workers and hardpressed families – by abolishing theUSC on the first €30,000 earned,saving workers up to €700 per annum."

https://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2020/Giving_Workers_and_Families_a_Break_-_A_Manifesto_for_Change.pdf

Do you now accept that SF in fact did NOT say they would abolish the USC?

I did read on another source they pledged to abolish it, Maybe it was on of Pearses soundbytes.

 

[SoundMan]

I did read on another source they pledged to abolish it, Maybe it was on of Pearses soundbytes.

Well can you produce that then? You see the reason I asked is I recall the outcry at the time where FG wanted to abolish the USC, and it being lauded in some quarters as a progressive tax. That's why it struck me as being very unusual that SF would want to go down the same road as FG.
I think in your FF mind you mixed up FG policy with SF policy.

And as the source you quoted proves I remembered correctly that SF didn't want to abolish the USC. They just didn't want the fist 30K to be taxed on it. That's a huge benefit to those at the lower salary end of it, to be made up by the higher end not topping out quite so quickly.

 

[TheEarlofPearl]

Thomas Pringle gave DHR some lashing in the dail. ?

 

[jimmym]

Thomas Pringle gave DHR some lashing in the dail. ?

I never want to see that video,

 

[Blue Jasmin]

Thomas Pringle gave DHR some lashing in the dail. ?

2 F-bombs were launched.

Thomas Pringle lashes out with ‘F-bombs’ in the Dáil after Danny Healy-Rae interruption

Two Independent TDs have clashed in the Dáil, with one resorting to a foul-mouthed tirade against the other.

www.independent.ie

 

[TheEarlofPearl]

2 F-bombs were launched.

Thomas Pringle lashes out with ‘F-bombs’ in the Dáil after Danny Healy-Rae interruption

Two Independent TDs have clashed in the Dáil, with one resorting to a foul-mouthed tirade against the other.

www.independent.ie

His Paul Gogarty moment

 

[Blue Jasmin]

His Paul Gogarty moment

Neither emerge with much credit from that exchange, and yet some people would prefer to see an FF/FG govt propped up by Independents such as these two buckos than have a party like the Greens in as coalition partners, as at present.