Irish budget: Stark difference in UK and Ireland’s budgets

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlvzlxd7l5o

Posted by That_Technician_439

11 Comments

  1. Dookwithanegg on

    ~~Tories planning to cut benefits and public service spending should surprise nobody.~~

    Edit to add: Oh yeah, I forgot about the July Election and subsequent Labour government, whoops.

    I guess if it really was Tories they’d have just done it and not apologetically forewarned of it.

  2. Icy_Willingness_954 on

    Yeah I do find it funny that I see some people complain about the government’s handling of the economy. If they’re spending it incorrectly that’s one thing, but in terms of making money Ireland has been doing fantastic

  3. Appropriate-Bad728 on

    More money more waste. 

    We need a national audit of public expenditures.

    It’s all public information that can be accessed “easily”. 

  4. Loud-Process7413 on

    The Biggest money launderers in Europe..aren’t we just f#cking great.🤣

    The skill required, the top notch politicians who devised this cunning plan…

    We are just SO good. We really should share this secret knowledge with the rest of our EU buddies..its so mean not to🫢

  5. Warm_Butterscotch_97 on

    The UK has had a decade of austerity and has opposed all government investment in the economy for even longer.

    The Irish government underinvests in infrastructure for sure but at least understands how to support industry.

  6. OceanOfAnother55 on

    I keep seeing all this about how we’re making way more in corporation tax than we expected, and that this is probably not going to last forever.

    Can anyone explain that to me? How/why are we making so much, and why is that not likely to continue indefinitely as long as we don’t change anything?

    What I’m gathering is that our surplus is kind of fake/artificial/unsustainable in some way. Like in this article they mention our “underlying deficit”.

  7. Acrobatic_Concern372 on

    At least the UK have a public transport network. It can be expensive but it functions well enough. We have a surplus but won’t invest in public transport.