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You are Biffo, where do you make the cuts???
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Where do we start?? Just to throw a few ideas out there...
Transport- Incentives for the public to use public transport. Removal of "stealth taxes" on parking at train stations. Reduction in cost of public transport fares. School bus fares will decrease, rather than increase.
- Immediate termination of the "Western Rail Corridor" project.
- Investment in quality bus corridors for regional cities. The service itself will be contracted out to private companies with a history of providing world-class service.
- Private competition on Dublin bus services.
- Prioritisation of Dublin Metro and Interconnector - financed by government borrowing.
- Completion of all planned Inter-Urban road routes - financed by government borrowing.
- Restriction of funding to "secondary" rail routes which are slow, inefficient and a drain on public money (Sligo, Westport, Rosslare etc). Increased investment in bus services on these routes.
Obviously you have never taken a long bus journey in Ireland :rolleyes:
Why should everything be about Dublin?
That is the problem with this country, why we have an urban sprawl emminating from the capital and why we have soon to be really f**** up commutter towns ?
As regards rest of ideas in your post I would probably agree with.If it costs €3/l you'll walk to the shop instead of driving and take the bus more often.
This move also scraps scaled motor tax in favour of a flat rate of a fiver.
Obviously you don't live in the country where the local shop and post office, sorry sure the FF/PDs got rid of those and the local Garda barracks, is a distance of 8/10 miles and there ain't no bus service :rolleyes:Errr you do realise that this will effect transport prices (public and private), haulage cost, and ultimately anything that has to be delivered will be hiked up in price dramatically to cover this increase in cost.
It is extremely naive and ill thought out.
But Gandalf that is the way the FF - Builders party works. Come up with policies while in the bar, in the jacks, you name it.
Rememebr the learner driver idea
There are very few heavy haulage contracts that could not be delivered by a freight train. You're also assuming that the haulage industry wouldn't claim back the VAT or have sweet deals with suppliers. in effect they'd end up paying more, but it would still be a lot less than you or I would have to fork out. I know what I'm talking about on that one. Have family in that business;)
Haulage is also a large contributor to congestion and the more of it that can be done in a non road manner the better. It would also encourage the use of non-fossil solutions.
When there isn't a problem nobody will strive to improve, but whe the problem occurs (i.e a significant hike in cost) you can be sure the creativity will know no bounds.
Again 99er where do you live, Limerick isn't it, which does have a semi decent rail service (granted Limerick junciton is a joke) ?
Take the west of Ireland as an example.
There are rail routes into Galway city and no further.
How do you deliver to Cliften, Carrowroe, Oughterard etc ?
There is a rail route to Westport, Castlebar and Ballina be it a poor one.
These stations could not handle the level of freight and then how do you cover the rest of the county ?
Why would I pay for haulier to carry goods to Castlebar, have to wait for day to get it shipped to Dubliin, then wait for another day to get it shipped within Dublin, when I could get haulier to take it whole way to Dublin in one day ?
We are talking about CIE here.
You seem to think the increase in haulage costs would be borne by the haulier, the supplier or the seller :rolleyes:
You never heard about how the cost is passed onto the consumer ?I am not allowed discuss …
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Not since a company vehicle was withdrawn from my dad's job package 12 years ago. We had to move after that.Obviously you don't live in the country where the local shop and post office, sorry sure the FF/PDs got rid of those and the local Garda barracks, is a distance of 8/10 miles and there ain't no bus service :rolleyes:
Is there no shop on your way to/from work?? that you could use rather than going home and making a trip back? Increased costs would make people think about these things. The initial outlay on a basic car would however be severely reduced.
Sitting in a Tax lecture even:rolleyes:But Gandalf that is the way the FF - Builders party works. Come up with policies while in the bar, in the jacks, you name it.
Rememebr the learner driver idea
I have no commuter rail available to me and no bus service without walking a mile and a bit to town. I'd at least like something inbound to pass by the pointless bus stop at the end of the road.Again 99er where do you live, Limerick isn't it, which does have a semi decent rail service (granted Limerick junciton is a joke) ?
Take the west of Ireland as an example.
There are rail routes into Galway city and no further.
How do you deliver to Cliften, Carrowroe, Oughterard etc ?
There is a rail route to Westport, Castlebar and Ballina be it a poor one.
These stations could not handle the level of freight and then how do you cover the rest of the county ?
Why would I pay for haulier to carry goods to Castlebar, have to wait for day to get it shipped to Dubliin, then wait for another day to get it shipped within Dublin, when I could get haulier to take it whole way to Dublin in one day ?
We are talking about CIE here.
Again...there is provision for this in the original postYou seem to think the increase in haulage costs would be borne by the haulier, the supplier or the seller :rolleyes:
You never heard about how the cost is passed onto the consumer ?
"I'm not backing down to the hauliers!! They can up their prices if they have an issue, or they can go bio, making it cost efficient and removing the need for state subsidies > can put duty on that too. "0 -
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Frankie Lee wrote: »Then put all solicitors/ barristers up against a wall and shoot them, it might not do much for the economy but it could be helpful.
And to hell with the Garda that died yeah? After all what do the Gardai contribute to our society as a whole!? :rolleyes:Here's one for ya...
When I was in uni, apparently the pass rate for first year was 45%. So 100 folks start first year and 55 of them drop out after year one.
The way I think free fee's should work, is like this.... You pay your college fee's directly to the college. If you pass, you get them refunded from the Dept. of Education, if you fail, you don't... Very simple solution to a very simple problem. From what I remember, you had people in college who worked and then you had people who spent their grant money on beer in the SU. You can't be fairer than that...
That assumes that people can afford the fees up front. The one thing we need to do, IMO, is keep "free" third-level education as-is. One of the things that makes us attractive to foreign investment is our high skill levels. This must be maintained.Where do we start?? Just to throw a few ideas out there...
I must admit I agree with most of your suggestions, however....
Income Tax- Increase in higher rate of tax by 2 percentage points to 43%
- Increase in lower rate of tax by 1 percentage point to 21%
Raising taxes in general may well have a net negative effect on the economy. We need people to keep spending as much as possible so I'm not 100% Sure this is a good idea. That being said there is sense in the move also and one would question how much those increases would actually affect us on a daily basis.Third Level Fees- Reintroduction of 3rd level fees effective from next college year.
As stated above this is one thing I do not agree with at all. We need to remain competitive and our workforce has helped us do that over the years. We need to maintain our high standard in this area.Social Welfare- Strict investigation of all social welfare claims - utilising surplus staff within public service
This is a big one for me. They absolutely must crack down on social welfare abuses immediately.
Public Service- Pay freeze for all public servants.
With the exception of cost of living increases I agree.- An end to consultancy contracts - this is the work we are paying public servants to do.
Reminds me of my days in banking. Consultants would be brought in for their expertise, which was over and above our own. What I never understood was why there was no interest in developing the staff that were there so that the need for consultants was removed. There would need to be a trnasition phase to allow for the proper hand-over of skills but this should be at the very least seriously considered.
Transport- Private competition on Dublin bus services.
I disagree with this one as that will only serve to reduce services to some areas and therefore add more cars to the road. What I would propose would be a radical overhaul of the entire transport system to make it more efficient in every way. Sadly that project would be far too expensive to implement now. I've often spoken about the "spiderweb" idea, which IMO should replace this bizarre fascination that all of our public transport organisations have with Dublins city centre. The number of people that travel into town with the express purpose of travelling back out to somewhere else is staggering and the notion somewhat baffling.
- Phased abolition of stamp duty in favour of annual property tax. Property tax will be lower for principal private residence, but will increase substantially for each second and subsequent residence owned. This will help to increase market liquidity and reduce the cyclical nature of tax revenue from property sales.
This is a very dangerous idea. It would mean that should someone move into the house next door to me that they would be paying the same level of annual property tax as me but would not have paid any Stamp Duty. Why should I have to fork out so much more for what is essentially the same house just because I was unfortunate enough to have bought it before this move came in. It would be a double taxation on those who have already paid the Stamp Duty (in the interests of transparency I wish to point out I didn't pay Stamp Duty on my house given that I was a FTB at the time, but for the purposes of this example it was best illustrated as though I had).- On-the-spot €500 fines for anti social behaviour
For as muchg as I may agree I'd say you'll find very few cases where that €500 is actually available.
Social Welfare crack-downs, Health Service reform, closing of tax loopholes and at least stricter rules regarding the bail-outs to developers are all prime targets that should be lined up. We need to ensure that people still have money to spend and that they do indeed keep spending. We need to ensure we remain competitive, which means continued focus on infrastructure and education, and we need to ensure that any form of increased taxation happens on a fair and relative basis depending on affordability. For all the talk of how this was a balanced budget, most of the changes were static changes that affected everyone financially equally, which therefore meant that they affected the less well off more from a practical standpoint.0 -
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