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It wasn’t me… November 21, 2010

Posted by Garibaldy in Fianna Fáil.
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and I’ll never do it again

Perhaps the Taoiseach is blaming the capitalist system?

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1. Mark P - November 22, 2010

Rabbitte defending the private pension subsidy. Why am I not surprised?

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CL - November 22, 2010

And Garret Fitzgerald,-F.G. ‘social democrat’- refusing to criticize the reduction in the minimum wage.

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Peggy Olsen - November 22, 2010

Pat Rabbitte made some eminently sensible points in relation to the pension tax relief:
1. Getting rid of the tax relief will not in fact yield the same amount in additional tax revenue, as many people will simply adjust their earnings, by not taking money out of a business for example, or by employers offering a pay cut in return for a larger employers pension contribution (which will probably remain tax-free, as it would just too hard to calculate the employer contribution to defined benefit schemes).
2. There is nothing wrong with someone deferring relatively modest amount of their salary to part-fund their retirement, seeing as the state has abdicated any responsibility for this in the case of the majority of the workforce.
3. A cap on the amount allowable tax free would stop most of the abuse without penalizing ordinary workers for the sins of Fingleton and others who went large on their pensions.

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3. Garibaldy - November 22, 2010
4. sonofstan - November 22, 2010

Greens to do decent thing soon….

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RosencrantzisDead - November 22, 2010

We have been saying that for a long time…

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sonofstan - November 22, 2010

Press conference now.

Will support budget, then leave is what I’m hearing.

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RosencrantzisDead - November 22, 2010

This I do not understand. What is the point of passing a budget and then submitting oneself to a General Election? This renders the budget a provisional one. The next government will not be bound to follow and any idiot (even a bond trader) will know that.

Not that the Opposition will do anything differently, but they will pass their own budget just to put their stamp on government.

Even by their perverse logic, the Greens have ceased to exist in a sensible world.

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Mark P - November 22, 2010

By the decent thing, I assume you mean disband as a party and go into voluntary exile in Mongolia?

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sonofstan - November 22, 2010

I meant to put ‘decent’ in commas, like so…

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Garibaldy - November 22, 2010

Decent in the neo-liberal bombing of small countries sense of the word I presume

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LeftAtTheCross - November 22, 2010

Called for date GE in second half of January.

Time to get busy so…

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LeftAtTheCross - November 22, 2010

GP statement here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1122/breaking23.html

Love this: “We have always said that our involvement in government would only continue as long as it was for the benefit of the Irish people”

The rest of it smacks of we are where we are and there is no alternative.

Bye bye GP…

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