Back to the real partys now
Iâm not clued up on it so other people are in a better position to confirm but I believe the issue is multinationals skirt the rules to avoid paying corporation tax. I donât think the 12.5% rate is that big an issue, itâs more they way the manipulate the legislation to minimise their tax liabilities.
How does that constitute proof?
Multinationals pay approx 2% here mate, look that is what is though.
If they had to pay 20% they wouldnât be here and weâd be down another 200,000 jobs.
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Nobody is asking them to pay 20% though.
Trump/Clinton are campaigning on it, also the EU who want to equalise corporation tax across the union.
SF, FF or FG are up against that whoever regardless of what combination of them gets into power here.
SF arenât proposing anything in this regard. Pearse Doherty used mealy mouth nonsense about pursuing corporations and stopping them using international tax planning (lol) to avoid tax but nothing concrete. They are no different.
Youâd want to be fairly frugal with your income to have 2 or 3 houses on the average industrial wage mate all the same.
Not really, I have a home back in Armagh as well as renting down here. Iâm on more than the average industrial wage but it wouldnât be too hard done. Iâm sure his son and greater family make use of it as well and they all contribute to its upkeep. Itâs not like property in Donegal is that expensive.
Adams has had that home in Donegal since back in the 80s.
Please show how they are. They are tax and spend like the rest.
The 80s extended past 1982, mate.
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The economic policies that got Ireland into the mess that it is still in were homegrown - implemented by Fianna Fail, and cheerled by Fine Gael. They wanted deeper tax cuts, wanted to compensate taxi drivers, wanted to refund Eircom shareholders, and proposed to abolish stamp duty (which Sinn Fein stood against), showing they wanted to pour as much petrol over the fire of the property bubble as Fianna Fail. Fine Gael let its policies be dictated by the Sindo just as much as Fianna Fail.
And hereâs the thing - if Fine Gael members actually do believe in âtheirâ economic programme, they should be out campaigning for Fianna Fail, because itâs Fianna Failâs programme theyâre implementing. âDifferentâ but exactly the same.
Fine Gael has done precisely fuck all to bring about any recovery. And its health policy has been a shambles, its Minister for Justice closed ranks and threw whistleblowers under a bus, and the Irish Water debacle shows it is just as beholden to vested interests and cronyism as Fianna Fail ever was.
A vote for Fine Gael is a vote for Denis OâBrien.
What a wonderful take for all of us then, how Gerry Adams could come to own at least two homes whilst earning the average industrial wage from 1983.
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If it ends up with only 10 or so seats between FG and FF would there be any chance of them going in together and trying to pass it off as something other than a coalition? A partnership of equals for the good of the country or something.
Are they transvestites?