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United Ireland Poll - please vote

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,685 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    A tiny fraction of a second is the answer to the first part and for as long as it is required if it is required at all is the answer to the second part.

    Link? I presume this is fully costed otherwise your only guessing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,727 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Link? I presume this is fully costed otherwise your only guessing.

    To what?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,685 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    To what?

    To showing how there might not be any tax and if there is how it won’t last long.

    Look francie, how much will this cost us southern taxpayers? That’s all I’m asking.


  • Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭drdidlittle


    tom1ie wrote: »
    I never suggested accepting anything.
    You mention improve? How would an extra tax on my pay packet improve anything for me?
    Explain that to me Francie.

    Greater 'good' Tom. Same as the PBP and far left in ROI not knowing what socialist politics is when a user pays tax comes in.
    Let's put some figures on this.
    Say UK back NI to the tune of 10 billion euro.
    At a starting point say ROI pays 1 billion in year 1 and rises by 1 billion a year for 10 years. Assume some gains and efficiency so on year ten we are backing NI to the tune of 8 billion
    Working population of ROI in 2020 was abt 2.5 million and a quick calculation give me 60 euro per head per week by year 10.
    NI is a nett sum of zero as a starting point as UK paying in more than 10 billion. Since most of working force in NI is in public service, if you streamline, jobs go or are not nett contributers to the output of the country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,727 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    tom1ie wrote: »
    To showing how there might not be any tax and if there is how it won’t last long.

    Look francie, how much will this cost us southern taxpayers? That’s all I’m asking.

    Can you 'link' to where it says there will be a 'tax'?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,685 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Can you 'link' to where it says there will be a 'tax'?

    Lol! Of course not, but I’m not the one pushing this idea. You are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,702 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    You won't get a breakdown of how we pay for a UI. I've asked they question a few times. No plausible answers yet.

    We'll somehow magic up the money.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,629 ✭✭✭✭downcow


    NI is the way it is because of the abomination of partition and being under UK rule, but that is very fixable.
    the UK itself on the other hand is less certain with scotland probably heading for the door in the near future and wales who knows, with england itself falling victim to the far and alt right.
    maybe they will turn things around who knows, but there is no doubt the only way to stop NI being a basket case is reunification with the south.



    leaving northern ireland to sort itself out without interference has been tried, we ended up with one of the most sectarian states in europe and a 30 year conflict and all of the issues that went with it, and still do.
    that won't be happening again.

    Second only to the one down south


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,685 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    6 wrote: »
    You won't get a breakdown of how we pay for a UI. I've asked they question a few times. No plausible answers yet.

    We'll somehow magic up the money.

    Thought so. Some people are so reckless with other peoples money.
    You don’t work in the HSE by any chance francie?
    Only joking have a good night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,702 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Thought so. Some people are so reckless with other peoples money.
    You don’t work in the HSE by any chance francie?
    Only joking have a good night.

    I think some people want UI at any cost. A very brexit like way at looking at it.

    Make it right with the numbers first. Then it'll work.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭drdidlittle


    You never will hear those figures as they will kill any talk of UI.
    I'm reading the government report on a UI at the minute (thanks Francie). Uses German and Korean (using a hypothetical reunification on a hypothetical reunification paper) reunification and is littered with notes on insufficient information on NI finances.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 919 ✭✭✭wicklowstevo


    Can you 'link' to where it says there will be a 'tax'?

    every one will be asked to "contribute" or to pay some "insurance " to the organisation like the good old days ??

    just kidding , but you cant pay for it all in slightly musty out of date northern bank notes , which is actually as realistic as any financial plan put forward so far


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,727 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Lol! Of course not, but I’m not the one pushing this idea. You are.

    I want the discussion and planning to begin. That is whst I am pyshing...because what is there has failed.

    BTW we all constitutionally aspire to this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭drdidlittle


    I want the discussion and planning to begin. That is whst I am pyshing...because what is there has failed.

    BTW we all constitutionally aspire to this.

    Right. Get the ball rolling and throw out a proposal on how it will be paid for?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,727 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Right. Get the ball rolling and throw out a proposal on how it will be paid for?

    We are gonna tax Tom.


  • Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭drdidlittle


    We are gonna tax Tom.

    Don't think he can take it all on his own Tom.... You going to need a pay increase


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,685 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Lol! Jaysus!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,702 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    This is why a UI is decades away. Economically it's not viable. Also, it's not even on the radar at the moment politically.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    This is the logical fallacy of begging the question ie presuming the conclusion. You have to prove it.

    In the case of the Irish republic its aspirational only. When tiny changes like increased taxes are mentioned, support drops off.

    We would need all that because funding Northern Ireland is a huge cost.

    I’m not 100% sure that is true but even if so they don’t have any real say.

    Another logical fallacy, this time a false analogy.

    Not going to happen.

    Demographics, polling, Brexit - it's happening.

    UK obligations, EU & US cash all coming.

    Source please re drop in polling numbers when taxation mentioned. All polling in consistently pro-unification. I've searched for any of the polling you mentioned. Is it incvented?

    Polling in England shows they want NI gone. Tory press pushing subtly for the same. George Osborne and the Evening Standard not so subtly saying time to dump NI.

    Siege mentality in South Africa. Ostriches with heads in the sand. Same with the DUP and acolytes. It's coming. Prepare for it and position yourself to your best advantage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    Funniest post on here yet.

    How so? You think a couple of hundred youths rioting is going to break the peace process?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    tom1ie wrote: »
    I wouldn’t.
    How do you know it won’t be 10% and do you mean short term like the USC? Or PRSI? they were short term too weren’t they.......
    I think your talking crap tbh.

    Germany managed a far greater problem with an economy 30 years behind by using the taxation normally passed to the church. Changed the name to the Soli taxed and made much higher earners pay it. Worked out well wouldn't you say?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    And yet again no specific proposals

    Is democracy a tough concept to grasp?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    downcow wrote: »
    Sounds like majority rule. So the tricolour would obviously win

    I'm another that'd be happy to ditch the tricolour. It's only a symbol and why retain a flag that one sixth of the population greatly disliked. The vote would be on new flags.


  • Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭drdidlittle


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Is democracy a tough concept to grasp?

    No. I'm all for it. All I want is some specific proposals on the finance and logistics of how this will happen so we can discuss here. I proposed an independent NI for 50 years to get their house in order and then let NI decide on what they want.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    We live in a time when people in the USA are getting free cheques posted out to them from successive Rep and Dem White Houses, and the EU is spending money with no idea how or when they will reverse direction, and people talk about "economics" with a straight face


  • Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭drdidlittle


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    How so? You think a couple of hundred youths rioting is going to break the peace process?

    Again no but the 'it'll be grand' approach doesn't work for me. I want specifics and full documented process lock and loaded before I vote on any form of UI


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    No. I'm all for it. All I want is some specific proposals on the finance and logistics of how this will happen so we can discuss here. I proposed an independent NI for 50 years to get their house in order and then let NI decide on what they want.

    Specifics for democracy? It's going to be PR dude.

    NI ain't worked for 100 years. Another 50 won't help.

    Questions re finance have been repeatedly answered at length above. Fair enough if you don't like the answers but they're not changing because of your dissatisfaction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    Again no but the 'it'll be grand' approach doesn't work for me. I want specifics and full documented process lock and loaded before I vote on any form of UI

    Will you be old enough to vote in 2025? We can hang on til 2027 if it suits.



    And on that note goodnight y'all. MOTD beckons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    Finance and logistics. Bless


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  • Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭drdidlittle


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Will you be old enough to vote in 2025? We can hang on til 2027 if it suits.



    And on that note goodnight y'all. MOTD beckons.


    I'm old enough to remember the troubles. Are you. The specifics are as follows and you can fill in as appropriate.
    Cost to ROI budget
    Unionist intregration
    Health system for NI
    Public service jobs both North and South.


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