Budget 2025 must be framed around infrastructure delivery rather than ‘handouts’, Ibec says
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2024/08/22/government-must-frame-budget-around-infrastructure-delivery-rather-than-handouts-ibec-says/
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Even IBEC wants a left wing Government.
I’d rather shit gets built than have an extra 10er a month that i’ll lose anyway somewhere else
And rightly so. Handouts and subsidies do nothing but raise prices. Look at mortgage and childcare subsidies, HAP etc. These things just need to be delivered as services, infrastructure and capacity, rather than having a bunch of insufficient handouts thrown at them.
Nah we definitely need some handouts.
Tax rates are scandalous.
Remember kids, tax cuts = worse services
Build an underground tube network.
A great example is horse racing.
Money is given to race prices, not building infrastructure.
That means, it’s very short term, and once the money is gone, it’s gone, with nothing left behind.
There are no fundamentals being built, just covering short terms costs.
>’handouts’
I hope they are not referring to the income I earned and get to keep as a ‘handout’.
Let people keep more of the income they earned and plow the rest into infrastructure.
I wouldn’t mind paying my current tax rate if it was actually invested back into helping people, but it’s not.
I need the handouts to cover the cost of the electric blanket over the winter