Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week July 22, 2012
Posted by Garibaldy in Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week.trackback
It’s hard to be Sindo columnist these days. The IMF has become too lily-livered for Marc Coleman. The property tax is disturbing Daniel McConnell, who focuses on the real victims of austerity.
The absence of one centralised universal database leaves any new property tax regime vulnerable to charges that certain sectors will be unduly burdened.
A perception has taken hold that the PAYE worker in that middle-income bracket will once again be hammered while the self-employed, the farmer, the immigrant, the working class, the old, the sick will all have means of avoiding the charge.
Almost the full set of stereotypes, except travellers. He must have missed that one.
A very interesting story :http://www.independent.ie/national-news/does-senator-have-michael-lowry-smoking-gun-3175432.html
Indeed. About the one thing in the Sindo you would hope is true.
Elaine Byrne is raising a very important point:
‘Apparently it is standard practice in a corporate business sale transaction that the vendor would provide a warranty or indemnity to the purchaser with regard to material adverse issues. Does such a warranty exist between Esat and BT?
Is someone else, other than the State, liable for the aggravated damages that Persona is seeking? ‘
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/elaine-byrne-lowry-and-obrien-the-story-that-wont-go-away-3175284.html
If this ‘warranty of indemnity’ is found to exist, then Esat and not the State would be liable.
Pat Rabbitte said: “The State will fully defend any claim against the Exchequer and will contest any claim of liability to pay damages from public funds to these plaintiffs.”
This full defense of the taxpayers’ interest should surely invoke the warranty of indemnity. But this would require that An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, accept the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal, which so far he has refused to do. Is there a difference between Labour and Fine Gael on this issue?
How the fcuk are the “working class”, not PAYE workers – Danny McConnell’s wife is gov pres sec for Labour – Kathy Madden.
That explains a lot!
I knew the IMF’s approval of the CPA would drive the Colemans crazy. They (the IMF) know that governments in Spain or Greece would kill to have something like it. Love the argument, though, that the IMF can’t be trusted because they’re public servants too – if memory serves, Sarah Carey tried the same argument about the OECD when they brought out a report several years ago that found Ireland did not, in fact, have a bloated public sector.