@KeithMillsD7 "if we pay the postman more, someone might try come and be a postman"
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This may appear positive until you consider the impact of hard work not being sufficiently rewarded and the fact that we Ireland has become a magnet for people doing low paid work because they keep more of the money they get as well as welfare benefits.
Dan O'Brien@danobrien20
Ireland's wealth inequality. Suppose everyone who pays high personal taxes on even modest incomes will feel it's worth it.
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@KeithMillsD7 That's the most backwards view I've seen to date. You're going to attract people because they might earn a decent living wtf.
You're gonna fuck over a whole class of people just so you can stick it to some people elsewhere that might also want to do it.
Completely insane.
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This parking lot in Sweden is designed with asymmetric parking spots that make it easier for entry and exit.
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@James09959617 @danobrien20 To pay that much effective tax you'd have to be earning over €300 000 per annum.
It's simply not true, we don't pay that much tax.
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@danobrien20 You basically work 6 months of the year just to pay the government.
What you take in the next 6 is then spent and you pay approx 20% in VAT, then you have carbon taxes, duty etc…
If you make a gain on an asset you are hammered with CGT - the worst in Europe.
You die? 33% tax
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A huge share of employees in Ireland fall into the top personal (income) tax band, levied at over 50% all in. This means that the government takes more of any pay increase and additional non-salary income than the individual does. This regime, in place for 18 years, is a brutal disincentive to work and explains why Ireland's personal tax system is ranked 37th out of 38 in the developed world.
Dan O'Brien@danobrien20
Ireland's personal taxation regime is the second worst among 38 peer countries according to the Tax Foundation. High marginal taxes (paid at very modest thresholds) have been in place since 2008. There has been almost no improvement over two decades despite having the resources to do so - a relentless rise in government expenditure has been prioritised year after year. A simple example illustrates how bad it is. The average electrician or plumber working for construction company will be on the top marginal rate, whereby the state takes more of every additional euro than the person gets to keep. If he/she wants to earn self employed income, the government will take more than the worker, and a tax return will have to be filed, involving time and/or accountancy fees. Is it any wonder finding tradespeople is hard?
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@thestandard1945 @ZynxBTC Exactly this. The coffers are empty, that's actually the issue, the rest is a symptom.
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@ZynxBTC The uk is broke its window dressing. 60% of the entire NHS budget is paid as interest on our debt and we will be printing so much more…. Unsustainable
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The UK is slowly becoming like Communist Cuba.
Wage compression is a serious issue in the UK.
For many decades, Cuba operated under a strictly egalitarian wage system where most government employees earned roughly the same amount regardless of their profession or performance.
Full time minimum wage for a 40-hour week is now £26,400 a year.
For comparison, a band 5 hospital nurse earns £32,073 and a newly qualified teacher earns £32,916.
The effects of this wage compression is further exacerbated by punitive taxes imposed by the state, where anything earned after £50,270 is taxed at almost 50% when you take into account NI and Student Loan.
You have a bizarre scenario where someone earning minimum wage in Carlisle or Aberdeen has similar levels of disposable income to someone earning a top 20% salary in London.
We are starting to see the cracks of this broken system with NHS Doctors striking over pay. In real-terms their pay and standard of living has been decimated.
I do wonder whether many are starting to question whether it's still worth becoming a professional in the UK, given how warped the incentive structures have become.
I'll end this by leaving you with a rather telling image.
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@mdragoferrante @ZynxBTC Well that just tells me, the working conditions for teachers and doctors are atrocious and student debt shouldnt exist. No one decides out of school they're going to be a barista instead of a doctor.
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@Fix7heMoney @ZynxBTC Thats not based in reality. Specifically in the UK. A job not being monetarily productive does mean it's not necessary. Who's going to collect your bins? Or are you going to sit in your filth. Yet this is viewed as "low productivity" according to the stats. UK is quite efficient.
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@ZynxBTC It only takes a couple of weeks of working with others being paid the same despite being half as productive, for resentment and apathy to take hold, and for productivity to drop.
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@carlowlad715482 @danobrien20 The people that feel the impact of tax the least pay the most. And Ireland is one of the most productive in the world despite this, so it's clearly not impacting peoples drive.
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@carlowlad715482 @danobrien20 Personal income tax competitiveness means nothing, a race to the bottom?
What purpose is it trying to achieve? No income tax & then no government services or public infrastructure,not a good outcome.Irelands tax reduces inequality & yet it's one of richest in world.That's a win.
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@KirkLubimov That's stupid logic. The argument is that checks and balances work. And that democratically people will make rational decisions in their best interests.
It may be flawed but it's not whatever bullshit he's spouting.
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This is the best part from Pierre Poilievre appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast;
"Those who push a socialist ideology have a gross contradiction in their view of human nature.
They say that human beings are wretched, self-interested, greedy when they’re in the private voluntary economy, but they’re angels when they’re in the governmental economy.
They argue that the government should just control everything because then we have all these angels that will decide for us."
🎯
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@DanMulhall This cult of personality nonsense needs to stop, makes it sound like the guys going to pick up a pick axe himself.
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That does seem very strange. I heard him on the radio a few months ago and he sounded impressive. Led me to believe that he could pull off this project efficiently. His skill set is probably quite rare.
Joe Lynam@JoeBLynam
Metrolink’s €550k boss Seán Sweeney quits in fresh blow to transport project Mr Sweeney cites distance from his New Zealand home as reason for departure. Seriously, what did he expect from a job on the other side of the world? independent.ie/irish-news/met…
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Did RTÉ really invite Dave Fanning on the radio on Good Friday to dismiss Christianity as nonsense”?
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@iggway @AutismCapital Disagreeing occasionally isn't moving the Overton window lol
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This isn’t Rogan being combative for sport it’s him refusing to let the Overton window drift in real time. Theo’s chasing the “safe, harmonious everyman” spot in a culture that rewards emotional fluency over intellectual consistency. Their friction is the sound of one guy still demanding arguments and the other sensing the cultural weather vane. Rare to see the mask slip so cleanly on a major platform.
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If you watch the full Joe Rogan x Theo Von podcast from today you can cut the tension with a knife. Theo will say something "left coded" and Joe will immediately take the opposite end of the stance, and challenge him over and over until Theo basically says "What are you doing?"
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Joe Rogan: “Iran’s a real enemy.”
Theo Von: “Are they an enemy to America?”
Joe Rogan: “Well, they’re the largest state sponsor of terrorism… They want a global caliphate. They’re radicals.”
❌ FACT CHECK: That’s false.
Iran’s goals center on national sovereignty, and they have sought to project influence regionally through allied governments and forces (Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthi, Iraqi militias, etc.), what’s often called the “Axis of Resistance.”
Their goals do not include establishing any kind of caliphate. A caliphate is a specifically Sunni political-theological concept rooted in succession to the Prophet Muhammad.
Iran is Shia, and the ideological framework of the Islamic Republic – Khomeini’s velayat-e faqih (guardianship of the jurist) – is a distinctly Shia doctrine with no ambition to govern Sunni Muslims.
Iran and Sunni jihadist movements like ISIS, which did pursue a caliphate, are actually adversaries.
@joerogan | @TheoVon
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@DropSiteNews Joe Rogan is such a fucking idiot.
He's blabbing about things he's fully ignorant with such confidence.
Since when Iran want a global caliphate?
They never even initiate war for centuries.
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@DropSiteNews Geez, Joe is stupid. He's like the Piers Morgan of the "Bro World." 2+ years of interviews with the most informed people on the subject, and he's still parroting the AIPAC/Zionist narrative on Iran. There's no excuse for this.
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