Protecting yourself against the impending Sinn Fein "Wealth" grab

I agree with some of what you say.

You complain about waste and overspending in the HSE, and I agree with you, yet you plan to vote for SF, who will throw even more money at the HSE, without reforms.

I would love if SF tackles the doctors, the unions, drive efficiencies, introduce EHR, etc., but as they are a socialist party, they will pamper trade unions, and do whatever the unions want.

I would love to be proved wrong.

Quick example: we paid GP double what the UK paid to administer the COVID vaccine. Would SF be tough enough to reduce those fees?

The new childrens hosp replaces two/three older hosps.

The older hosps will close, and the staff will move to the new hosp.

Temple St is 4km from the new hosp.

Crumlin Hosp is 2.5km from the new hosp.

Your frustration with the housing situation and govt spending is totally understandable and i think it reflects a lot of peoples opinions.

But there is good reason to think SF will nose dive the economy.

They are anti FDI. They want to increase taxes on highly paid mobile workers. The very people that generate all our income tax in the first place and that can easily move and work abroad if they are taxed into doing so.

They are unlikley to oversee the development of more homes and I think they will actually REDUCE the number of new completions, through their demonising of investment funds, many of whom make large scale developments viable in the first place!

SF logic is, remove the investment fund, so the 300 apartments will go to the private sale market.

Reality is, remove the funds and the development doesnt get built in the first place, because its not a safe investment for the developer. Especially facing into the economic headwinds we see today and for the forseeable.

As a side note - The current govt will exceed the housing target for this year and again next year, in all probability.

In summary, I get your frustration.

But change for changes sake is not a good reason to change - especially when the outlook for that new change looks bleak from the start.

As the 2024 opening date for the new children's hospital at St James's creeps closer it's feared that the issue could lead to delays in recruiting enough staff.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/health/national-childrens-hospital-facing-chronic-26631725

My daughter is a nurse and she is adamant that they will have nowhere near enough staff as the current shortage is only getting worse and recruitment takes ages to have sanctioned.

So we need more dereliction and vacancy taxes as well, good point.

Comparing cash amounts internationally is meaningless. What's the cost of living living, cost of accommodation, cost of insurance for Irish doctors vs UK?

Increased staffing such as teachers, gardai, nurses, doctors and so? The absolute opposite.

Your statement is false.

HSE headcount has increased strongly.

Have a look at the data:

The HSE went from 119,813 staff to 143,075 in under four years.

That is an extra 23,262, or 19.5% extra in four years.

We over-spend on healthcare, relative to the age profile of our population.

When you hear anybody calling for more spending, bear in mind that we already overspend.

Sinn Fein initially were vehemently against the bedroom tax in NI, then worked to bring it in…

so what they say is one thing, then what they do is another… You cannot trust them, well, you never could we knows, leopards / spots etc :)

what next, people with a big / reasonable sized garden, tax it to encourage them to sell it for housing ?

they might call it ‘EAT’…. Excess acreage tax… because if that lot get in they’ll be eating away at anything and everything people here ‘worked’ for….. to sort their lot out and to encourage more support from certain groups.

they’ve already promised to ‘EAT’ away at certain facets of democracy..

I don't think any kind of numbers or stats would change your mind, to be fair. You have your agenda well set for us to see.

An agenda!

I let a stone fall from my hand to the ground to demonstrate gravity. "Look at this dude and his agenda!"

To the utter contrary, anyone who fails to see the brutally obvious facts of the matter, has no other explanation whatsoever, nevermind holistic, yet continues to bat for ignorance...that's a god damned agenda. Pavlovian response mechanism, indoctrination. Whatever you want.

What the poster above is doing is saying the equivalent of "but look at this, we built 20k homes last year!". Yes, that's truthful. But I'm pointing out that it doesn't matter a solitary fook when a 100k extra people arrived willy nilly.

Ignoring that type of overall truth is an agenda in itself.

Try doing 2 hours of work a day and boasting about it to your boss that needs 8 hours done.

A wealth tax is stupid when we can't even get international executives to move here and pay tax because our taxes are already too high and we don't have the living standards/services.

The real problem in this country is too many on lower incomes are outside the tax net.

Don't expect Sinn Fèin to fix that.

Your posts really don't present any evidence at all, nothing.

Like I said, a poster presented facts to you, and this was your response. You have your mind made up, the world is out to get you.

...people have a tendency to have kids and grandkids etc etc, again, keep allowing people to accumulate wealth, results in rising social dysfunctions, including crime, mental health issues, addiction problems etc etc, america is a fine example if you leave such polices run for extended periods of time, a perfectly safe place to live for all, perfectively stable!

Of course, assets are the most expensive items.

They also have to eat, drink, drive, have water, electricity, shop....and we'd get a lot more tax in general if we could actually attract them.

But nope begrudgery and populism has to win in Ireland...

So we'll get SF. In terms of populism it will be FF on steroids just with less competent and qualified individuals running things. They are going to wreck this country. It's going to be magnificent seeing those who vote for them flee in terror when they see the state they'll leave this place in.

Even their prospective Finance Minister, for example, has a conviction for abusing a Garda and is a two time college dropout.

And that's just him - it gets worse as you go through their representatives.

I'm no apologist for the other parties but I can see what's coming if they get in.

I think give them a minority government and let them stew.

I haven't said there aren't problems in Ireland, show me a country without any problems...i'll wait.

I am not part of any "shower", I don't actually live in Ireland full-time, but the few months of the year I am home, the picture you are trying to paint just doesn't exist. You are playing the victim pretty heavy here.

You are painting Ireland as some 3rd world country that is struggling to keep the water on. It is not.

I can see what's coming, and anyone with their brain turned on can see all the trends accelerating.

Housing, healthcare, education, transport, all have very serious problems associated. And it isn't that they came out of nowhere, they are in a downward spiral year in and year out.

Depending on your position int his country, things are dire. The obvious worry is that they are getting worse. For example the growing homelessness.

Are we a third world country? No.

But as a country with purported money coming out of its arse, yet more and more going wanting, the third world style of governance is becoming more apt. Call it hyperbole, but its an absolutely insane situation, that the wealthier we are the poorer we are? Come again?

Very, very American. And there isn't anyone about to hold up American society as a great thing to achieve.

Takes way too long. Who can waiting a generation or more to make the big bucks?

Much better to commodify and hyperinflate assets you already own by bringing in pre-grown worker units, thereby killing two birds with the same stone: cheap, exploitable labour, and the siphoning of nationals wealth through the increased cost pressure.

Sure, it throws the future under the bus. But, well, all the moolah today!

Sf wealth grab, lol! Aren't ffg thieving over half your salary over a pittance? Literally even the poor people's income , I e 40k is hit with over a fifty percent marginal rate...

I'm blocking up the windows to avoid paying the window tax.

Young people have always been in the minority in terms of asset ownership.

Young people dont stay young. They get older. Then they accumulate assets.

Thats how its always worked and ever thus shall be.