Now it's official: "Ireland needs a new right wing party".

Are you seriously discussing me in that manner!

All of what I said I have said I have said the same on the other threads but never mind some people just don't listen .

It's the posts we are replying to here not the people ..

Go on with you now and talk about somebody else behind their back .

This I would consider a left leaning policy .

And agree

There's not enough information to meaningfully characterise this proposal as right-leaning or left-leaning.

Tax reductions are universally popular, but to turn a suggested tax reduction into an actual policy you need to flesh it out a bit. What is the revenue cost of the proposed tax reduction? And how is that revenue cost going to be borne? Will you —

• Raise other taxes? If so, which taxes, and by how much?
• Cut expenditure? If so, what expenditure, and by how much?
• Borrow more? How much?

You can of course do a combination of any two, or even all three, of these, in varying proportions. But until you have answers to these questions, you don't really have something that can be graced with the name of "policy".

Only when you have a policy, with answers to these questions — answers that stack up, so that the cost of the proposed tax cut is covered by some combination of these three measures — can you begin to think about whether the policy is left-leaning or right-leaning. E.g. if tax cuts for middle income earners are funded by a wealth tax or an increased property tax, that looks like a left-leaning policy; if they are funded by cutting services that largely benefit lower-income earners, that looks like a right-leaning policy.

They will not scrap that bill because it is based on an EU directive. Its a done deal, already in the bag. So your out of luck

Yeah, we never had right-wing parties in Ireland - that's a novel idea. **** freedom!

Also - FYI -

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Well, you know what they say: a fire fighter fights fires; a crime fighter fights crime; a freedom fighter fights….

Your the one making wild predictions not me. Adulting - your funny.

A letter went in signed by all in Mountjoy and their families that they would organize behind any candidate likely to beat a FG TD if McEntee was removed from the Justice portfolio.

I suggest reducing marginal direct tax rates affecting average workers, but not reducing their effective direct tax rates.

Marginal rates matter in making decisons on how much to work, that's why I want them reduced.

But, overall, I don't think there should be any fall in receipts from income tax+USC + PRSI, as society is ageing, plus we have an infrastructure deficit.

So, collect the same, or more, revenues, but with lower marginal rates on workers earnings 40-50k.

How?

abolish the age tax credit

abolish the 18k/36k income tax exemption for people over 65

increase DWT to 30%, maybe even 40%

abolish the PRSI exemption under 352pm, every worker should pay some PRSI

increase the PRSI entry point from 38pw to 100 pw

re-introduce the PRSI tax-free amount at 100 pw.

re-introduce the PRSI ceiling at the entry point to the top income tax rate

Move from two income tax rates to four: 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%

eventually merge PRSI with USC, maintaining a very broad tax base