New party vote share?

Your argument summed up in your first sentence. It’s hard to do so let’s just stay the way we are. Get off your knees mate. **** hell.

Anyone with over 10 convictions is scum.

One economic policy in what you quoted and that’s to improve the tax system and the tax take.

Making more money for the state is economically illiterate now 🤣🤣🤣🤣

For a renter, who may be only in an area for months to a couple of years, it's totally inequitable. The public domain is maintained from the poll tax, and ultimately the landlord benefits on the double via their asset inflating off the back of the tax paid by the renter, and with the landlord being able to command more rent deriving benefit from something they didn't pay for (on the triple if you abolish LPR wholesale).

Think of a couple renting in a house Dublin 6 (a renter heavy postcode) from a landlord living down the country. They are already likely paying high-ish payroll tax trying to cobble together a deposit, and they are slapped with a flat tax that overwhelmingly benefits the property owner and not them.

It also does zero to address the vexatious issue of dereliction, vacancy and the hoarding of land.

One of the principles of taxtion is that it should first be equitable, and secondly easy to collect. Poll tax fails on both counts. You can't hide real property, and property owners are the ultimate overwhelming beneficiary of council improvements of the commons. Great idea if you want to tear up the rulebook on the social compact altogether I suppose.

Essentially you're arguing for a second USC hypothicated for local authority expenditure.

Seems like that’s what all the naysayers want

LPT is not a flat tax, there are 19 bands dependant on the value of the property.

Again, leaving aside the inequity of it, how precisely do you propose collecting and administering your USC mk.2?

The government and Revenue currently can't say with any degree of confidence where each citizen currently lives. So how do you assign the tax collected to the correct local authority?

I'll give you an example, for a good few years early in my career, all my Revenue correspondence was sent to my family home rather than the sublet I was living in at the time.

If you have a look at the think-tank that produces that ranking, they are explicit in that they believe a competitive tax code is one with low marginal tax rates because otherwise it drives FDI elsewhere and praises relativity flat taxation counties like NZ (which isn't exactly known as an FDI destination country. In fact they are riddled with Trussonomic doctrine if you read their website.

Ireland is a living breathing walking talking example that they are wrong.

In any case, if we wish to bring down higher marginal tax rates, we need to start getting serious about a property tax that relives the burden on payroll taxes.