"Green" policies are destroying this country

Remember Ciaràn, your ‘leader’ was prepared to fly for 14 hours just to cast a vote.

This is such utterly simplistic reductive nonsense.

You're trying to compare the CO2 from one trip that is important for international relations and could have far outsized benefits for the economy, with an opposition to 8 million extra passengers going through Dublin Airport every year. This might be tough to understand, but 8 million is a larger number than 11. 11 passengers makes as good as no difference. 8 million passengers makes a pretty large difference. If you think they're in any way comparable then try buying 2 fewer coffees in the next month and with the savings you can buy yourself a nice mansion and a couple of Ferraris for the driveway.

Nobody is stopping you or I from flying. They're just saying we probably shouldn't be looking to add millions of tonnes of extra CO2 into the air above what we currently do. That is in no way the same as saying we must completely withdraw our entire government from any kind of foreign engagement that might benefit the country and turn ourselves into North Korea.

Higher paid are giving 50% of wages to tax. Before you start on all the other taxes they have to pay.

How much tax do you want on their wages till you would be happy?

Example below, if you earn 1m in wages your take home pay is less than half. So what percentage will you be happy with to tax at?

Salary

€ 1 000 000

Income Tax

- € 399 103

PRSI (Pay Related Social Insurance)

- € 40 000

USC (Universal Social Charge)

- € 79 736

Total tax

- € 518 840

Net pay

* € 481 160

Eamon Ryan on the tonight show VM1. I think all of his 8 advisors are just tell him what he wants to hear.

The guy has no idea how feel about what he is doing regarding people coming here with no ID and and all his other plans.

OK

😂😂 Relax

Perfect logic.

Now apply the same to our impact to global warming or even better - to our impact at reducing global co2 levels.

I know, it is negligible, hardly even measurable. Therefore we can conclude that trying so hard make no sense anyway.

i understand what you mean but i don't entirely agree with all of it. The other guy is right in saying its always the little man who has to suffer. It's the same again with the new rvm scheme going live tomorrow where its pushed on the consumers again stuck footing the bill. But then i agree also that the typical cry of "taxing the rich" is'nt the answer either. i have had a few job opertunities to earn a much higher salary and have had to turn it down numerous times because of PAYE and how high some of the other taxes is that come with it. Earning more money should'nt always have such a high price tag along side it, because it discourages little earners into becoming big earners and creates a sort of glass ceiling or brick wall effect. Alot of people go to other counteries to continue in their careers because of it. Irelands tax system is just way too greedy and expensive to live in, especially towards working class people suffering the brunt end of it. Country has become way too expensive with very little to offer.

i sometimes have big dreams of high earnings then feel very discouraged seeing how of it gets gobbled up by revenue and taxes. Even getting big money through other non-work related means is taxable, even inheritance and gifts are taxable its insane and its taking the piss.

there were times i came into enough money to start up a businuess atleast twice its happened, but the costs is so off putting.

My solution: They should'nt high paying jobs more per-say, but rather tax the big companys and businesses more INSTEAD. and as for work, instead of being taxed for earnings, it should be taxed for peformance. What i mean is if you have a cushy job where you're sitting on your hole in parliment or what have yah, or some cushy office job, tax them signifincently more than you would tax a manual labor worker as they're doing less physically demanding things. Call it something like "cushy job tax". How does that sound? the more cushy the job = the more tax paid on it.

tldr - tax banks more, tax big businuesses more and big corportations. tax people with high paying cushy jobs more, tax middle class workers alot less. tax small start up businuesss less. remove gift and inheritence tax entirely, unless its people with insanely high wealth.

No direct flights to Rio so The Green Leader would have to go via Paris.. and I would say that it will be him and a number of advisors, for example let's say 5 of them maybe his spouse will travel too? All in business class makes 54.53 metric tonnes of Co2 for their little jolly... All for a ceremonial visit to a country who couldn't give a F...ig roll about St. Patrick's day, any actual business meetings are all done by Video conferencing anyway..

And with all 20 government ministers travelling all over the globe by 1st/business class and their advisors then the carbon emissions could add up to 1,00 metric tonnes of additional carbon emissions..

My point is high earners pay more than 50% of their wages in tax. So if people want to tax them more what percentage of their wages do they want to take off them? its usually a flippant comment and people have no understanding of the current tax system

In terms of taxing the companies more, well then the companies will move away and you are left with people unemployed, high earners or not. Then you have a knock on affect of the tax of all the people working in those companies but as I posted before the knock on in the area is huge with job losses. Like Dell in Limerick when all the jobs got lost in Dell, but the canteen staff etc....plus I think the number was 2,000 eggs per day suddenly no longer needed so the farmers get hit. It;s a huge affect across all the area.

Who has a high paying cushy job?

Why should someone work their entire life, try to leave a little bit of money to kids and then get hit with loads of tax on it?

exactly, its government being greedy and simply just profitting off of the problem. Theey're profitting off polution.

They see a problem and ask themself how can we profit off of this problem but try to make it look like we're helping and actually doing something about it? cool lets tax it then, another source of revenue for us yay!

Does anybody else find they have to burn more of the Smokeless Coal to get a similar heat output to regular coal?

Have to wonder how that stacks up regarding emissions.

Trouble is time and time again Green taxes get put in place but many people have no choice but to swallow the extra costs.

i'm not sure if you're misunderstanding what i'm saying, or intentionally twisting things.

There are many cushy jobs, i only listed like 3 examples of high paying jobs. Essentially i said twice now they should be taxed not because of making lots of mmoney (your argument which i agreed with) but then added, it should be based off of who is sitting on their hole and who is'nt. Call it a cushy tax.

as for big corp moving out, i'll leave you with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrPU3eHeimA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKmem7Epk8E

i have no issue with the people who are genuinely working for their money, and being paid a fair rate. my previous previous reply was in favor of them and taxing them less, as they're breaking their back to make ends meet. i would never dream or imagine taking the food from their mouth.

i never said tax everyone but me, i say tax only everyone who deserves it. People who break their back to put food on the table don't deserve it. new start up businuesses don't deserve it. How can a country legitmately grow its own economy when its so hard to start out? tax the gate keepers!

the lavish wedding comment is about politicians and other people in high paying government jobs who i'm not going to name, who are being paid directly out of the tax payers pockets to brag about having million euro weddings or 1000 euro dinners, and laugh at it all, have get craic while the country goes to crap. Those are the people i'm saying should be taxed. the ones with cushy jobs who never had to work hard for anything a day in their life. or making insanely unfair large amounts of money for little to no actual work at all. tax those! if they're actually doing something for that money other than being a name and number, then fair enough, but if they're just another bum on seats there to do nothing but give the illusion of doing something, tax the arse off them.

i supported your initial comment, don't tax everyone rich, however i add to that only tax those who deserve it, and who do nothing to get it fairly. if a person can eat 1000 euro dinners each week, they can afford to be taxed! thats all im saying. if they can afford €1000 dinner, they can't complain really. so why protect them?

It's utter rubbish compared to the old stuff which produced great heat. Like most of the green agenda, it's get rid of the old reliable without an equivalent replacement......