Would a €750 tax credit stop young people leaving Ireland? Fine Gael minister Peter Burke thinks so
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/would-a-750-tax-credit-stop-young-people-leaving-ireland-fine-gael-minister-peter-burke-thinks-so/a633610828.html
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Is this how out of touch they are? I could earn 4 times as much in the US or Canada. 750 ain’t gonna cut it.
There can’t be much talent in FG if this lad is one of their ministers.
750 euro is only two weeks rent and he’s trying to encourage people not to go away for a better life? Delusional.
On the one hand 750 is not enough to buy a house but on the other hand 750 will buy a lot of avocados, so the true answer is who knows?
Well done FG, you have finally figured it out.
The €750 would allow a young person to buy a fairly decent tent and finally move out of their parents home and into the back garden
Fat chance.
I only read last night that the Metro is gone back consultation, the health system is in a shambles, the housing crisis is a housing disaster. It’s impossible to invest outside of a pension and property. Health and housing alone are the biggest contributors to one’s standard of living. It’s not all bad living here, but those for me are the big drawbacks.
I only have to put in two more years of experience here, then I’m gone.
No
Fine Gael with another “well let them eat cake moment”
Like during the budget when they put a couple hundred quid back into some people’s pockets.
“The housing and rental market is out of control, the HSE has collapsed, supermarkets and energy companies are absolutely fleecing people.
Fine Gael Parliamentary Party: I think a tenner a month would shut them up?”
It will be another 5 years of this if they get back into power, the mask has already started to slip since the local elections and they’re feeling arrogant. Pascal Donohoe is even saying the budget won’t be a kind one.
Fine Gael have to go.
That is less than one month’s rent in a shared flat. This country is screwed if anyone thinks this is going to make a dent in any of the five crises engulfing Ireland at this point
It’s at a point now where even some of the well educated emigrants that came here the last 10 years with young families are moving on cause the accomodation situation is too stressful .
Just build fucking homes for people, nothing else is going to cut it.
The average wage in the 15-24 age bracket is €339.28 a week (a lot of part time and minimum wage employees in this group), which is already out of the tax loop as they don’t earn enough to pay any tax so an extra tax credit will do absolutely nothing for many people under 25.
Fine Gael think the electorate are fools and they might be right.
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Tax credits only result in refunds or lower tax if the salary is large enough to use it. Kids in college won’t have a large enough salary.
They all need to be put on a standard MEDIAN wage when in power for this country.
They all seem to lose touch to how hard it is to live
This is seriously the level of thinking in Fine Gael.
Absolute delusion. If ever there was an image of throwing scraps from the table this is it.
Awful optics.
It would help you buy a one-way ticket.
Bandaid on a gaping, festering wound.
They should give the tax credit, but the idea it would convince anyone to stay in Ireland is fanciful.
Wouldn’t even cover a month’s rent for a mouldy single bed house share, in a shit part of the outskirts of Dublin.
Or, just move abroad to a place like Australia where the wages are better, and the cost of living can be cheaper, accommodation is cheaper and easier to find, and income taxes are lower, and the cost of owning a car is massively cheaper etc.
Aside from family/friends I’d say there’s absolutely sweet fuck-all keeping young people in Ireland and throwing a €750 tax credit (which many of them aren’t even likely to see the full use of) at them is just a joke.
Never trust a man in finance vest 🦺
By the time they actually implement it and adjusted for inflation, they could probably buy a burger and chips with that and still have change for the metro link.
People are laughing but with the way the polls are going these people will think policies like this are popular and they’d be right I suppose. Cue the “what’s the alternative people” demanding their voting decisions be made for them by people on Reddit
Lay off the coke Peter
750 a month right ? Maybe
Absolutely delusional,what planet is this lad from?.
It’s probably the stupidest attempt at gaining votes I’ve ever seen. Here kids have 750 euro that’ll be good for hmmm about 1/2 of your rent for a month in a shared room near your college, please stay here after your studies finish even though you won’t be able to afford a home. Fucking start actually giving people a better quality of life and stop trying to throw money at every issue.
If it’s 750 a month, maaybe. The housing situation is so fucked up, you need massive improvements which honestly will take several years to few decades to fix now. Nothing is gonna help the young people in the meantime, it’s far too late for that.
It’s not even 750, it’s 750*20%. Honestly what planet is he living on.
Do horse sell for €750 now? Gobshite
Peter Burke is an eejit, evidently.
Maybe increasing the base pay to New York levels, since we’re paying New York prices.
How many houses could you build for 100 million?
FFS increase the lower tax band to 55k.
People can’t afford to live because they’re being fleeced by taxes
Honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry. If he thinks that’s going to work and that it’s an idea worthy of going to the press with he’s clearly very out of touch with the realities of why graduates are moving.
Clearly the government is completely out of ideas if this is the kind of nonsense they’re coming up with.
€750?!! Ffs 🤦♂️
Is he talking in 1924 money ?!
Add another 2 zeros on the end and maybe 😂
a €750 payment… but get this, if you or your spouse work and earn an extra €750, you can keep €330 of it. and the more you work, the more you give!
wait… where are you going?
Wow, the things I could have done with my life in Ireland if I’d had €750 more
The picture is unnecessary because you read this headline and you just know it’s some cunt in a gilet
Make it 750 a month then we’ll talk
Seriously, an extra 750 a year for someone like me is just part of the rent paid for one month. So it’s going straight to the landlord
Im leaving in a few weeks.
Not because of tax credits. Its because I cant keep paying nearly 2k for a 2 bed in a shit town, no smaller flats available where I am. Moving back with the parents not an option.
The country has turned into an absolute shitehole, young people in this country dont feel they are a part of the state. I’d love to come home in 2 years and see that it is possible to rent and save or get a mortgage or be able to have a few kids but it doesnt look likely.
750 would pay for my flight
There you go, that’s what politicians think about young people. Not if they can’t get on the property ladder, if they can afford apparently luxuries like health/insurance and your pension. Want to maximize your savings or invest your money? No chance here CGT
750 euro, what the fuck is that gonna get you to improve your standard of living
750 buys a nice airfare
Let me leave the country where I pay 0% tax to come home to Ireland for €750! Absolutely sold!!
Peter Burke is an idiot
They have absolutely no intention of implementing this tax credit