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Who will have to pay the water charges???

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  • #32
    Zander1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭Zander1983


    we all should pay water charges, they have to in other countries. why should we be diffferent?


  • #33
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    Zander1983 wrote: »
    we all should pay water charges, they have to in other countries. why should we be diffferent?


    Why should we be the same?


  • #34
    Zander1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭Zander1983


    Why should we be the same?

    So we're special are we? Anyway, I come froma farming background and we practically pay for our water - water pumps are hard to maintain and need to be replaced every few years. We have three and end up replacing one about once every 3 years. Water should not be free because its expensive to supply


  • #35
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,932 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Zander1983 wrote: »
    So we're special are we? Anyway, I come froma farming background and we practically pay for our water - water pumps are hard to maintain and need to be replaced every few years. We have three and end up replacing one about once every 3 years. Water should not be free because its expensive to supply

    Will you pay your septic tank charge?


  • #36
    Zander1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭Zander1983


    Will you pay your septic tank charge? [/QUOTE

    Think we're exempt since we built and maintain the tank ourself. But yeah I would if we had to. Listen, in this day and age, a lot of things are free. News, music, movies etc all free (I save about 450 euro a year on newspapers alone by going online). We're getting used to it. We should start paying for the services provided to us


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  • #37
    Dannyboy83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,236 ✭✭✭Dannyboy83


    It's not a tax, it's a fine (penalty).
    This is what is causing the confusion.

    Same as you are fined for owning a car - they called it "Motor Tax", but they should have called it a "Motor Penalty".
    It's the fine you pay for owning a car in this country.

    It should only be called a "tax" if it is reinvested into the infrastructure. Otherwise, it's a fine.


  • #38
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,799 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    In all likelihood this tax till be sent to the common exchequer fund. There will be no choice or citizen oversight of the water tax outgoings, in that the same ineffecent state system will run it, leaving no choices to the end user. Finally water is a fundamental right to survive. Failing to guarentee this weakens the state claim to be the guardian of "the common good".


  • #39
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    Zander1983 wrote: »
    So we're special are we? Anyway, I come froma farming background and we practically pay for our water - water pumps are hard to maintain and need to be replaced every few years. We have three and end up replacing one about once every 3 years. Water should not be free because its expensive to supply


    Do you want people to pay for tax because it is, as you say, a European norm or is it rather that because you pay for water already, you think we all should?


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