THIS
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Here we go. From here - https://www.rte.ie/news/upfront/2023/0505/1381028-is-betting-tax-income-fairly-distributed/
Some commentators have continued to question this, but the figures from 2019 clearly demonstrate there is no ring-fencing as the doubling of the betting tax rate to 2% resulted in the betting tax yield increasing from âŹ52.3m in 2018 to âŹ95m in 2019, yet the fund was only raised by just 5% in the same year.*
Yours in fact checking
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Iâll throw this out there just to annoy a few other folks. From the article above. Blake and Lambo really donât like each other and its an interesting debate.
It stated that full-time hands-on employees in the horse racing and breeding sectors account for approximately 10,000 of the 90,000 total agricultural workers in Ireland, approximately 11%.
Yet, the horse racing industry only receives approximately 3.4% of the âŹ2.13 billion that the Department of Agriculture will give in agriculture sector support in 2023.
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Why do we have to come up with makey uppy subsidised jobs for these rural types?
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What do you define as a makey uppy subsidised job?
The lads from the dreary middle class city estates havenât a notion about the level of employment provided by these industries in rural areas.
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Apart from on-course, there should be no bookmakers that arenât state owned and run. Everyone who bets would have an account and be prevented from betting beyond a certain percentage of their income if they are in the red. Ban all online gambling. Make gambling a conscious choice.
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Makey uppey employment or real employment?
Makey up like Aodhans tweet?
Oh I hear that train a comin
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Socialist bookies. I like where u are going with this. Instead of âgoing to the trotsâ like they do in Australia we could âgo to the Trotskysâ.
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We need more athletics tracks
Why donât they ban cars in cities and turn the estates into running tracks.
A new Govt after next election will finish off horse racing
Minister Gary Gannon or some such will sort it out
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Yes but if we have to subsidise an industry to keep rural people occupied could we not get them doing something useful like building or sweeping roads instead?
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A lot of fellas have been brainwashed into thinking that horse racing exists for a reason other than gambling.
Thereâs loads of opportunities to gamble now lads, we can leave the horsies, itâs crooked as fuck anyway
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They can build the running tracks in middle class housing estates
Thatâs a very grass comment followed by yesterdayâs comment about people who work in racing yards.
Not everyone is cut out to be a college high flyer like yourself.
What did I say about people working in racing yards yesterday? Whatâs wrong with building roads? Or train tracks even? Very elitist of you.
Maybe the state owned bookmakers could put Betting Terminals with Fixed Odds into pubs or social locations as a way to increase the tax take?
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