Could it be related to the fact we are running back into the country being broke?
FFG
From financial ruin to financial ruin.
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Don’t worry we are in this together when it comes to paying it back
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Who would have thought lashing billions and billions out would have consequences 
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I thought Sinn Fein were to be the reckless spending party with their magic money tree
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We all partied
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It’s completely unrelated to the covid spending. We kept pretty much middle of the pack in Europe in what we borrowed and spent and so it shouldn’t have any negative consequences, no.
But, Pat leahy had an article the other day saying something like all of a sudden the government was going to be getting three bills it hadn’t expected for a billion each. We’re going to lose 2 billion a year fairly soon from international taxation changes and we’re still nowhere near investing enough to address housing or health.
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This is what get for voting two economically illiterate parties into power for over a decade.
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The next election might be a good one to lose
The problem with the Covid spending is how much can be wound back and how much other stuff was squeezed in while the cash was being thrown about.
Your points about tax, etc are well made
Since independence
I knew this would happen as soon as SF became the largest party in the Dáil.
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They’ll arrive into gov to find the money tree they were going to use has been chopped to bits and they’re the ones who have to pick up the pieces 
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I was discussing this very point with my bro only yesterday.
When is austerity not austerity? If it comes waving tricolours?
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You don’t have to adopt austerity. That’s the whole point of the magic money tree
They may get their wish for the MNQs to be gone.
The problem SF could have is that hiking income tax for high earners may be problematic if lads can just move to Spain or Thailand and work away like some are suggesting in the new remote working paradise
I’d not be planning on retiring in Ireland in 20 years and would keep options open as the demographics may not save us
The demographics will take care of themselves
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I lost a lot of faith in them all when they went populist on pension age. 65 was life expectancy or so when pensions introduced 110 odd years ago. We simply can’t afford it now and they all know it
I dunno mate. Give it a year. I can see some big employers growing back from the new with paradise.