Colin Murphy: The ‘squeezed middle’ cliché muddies the tax debate
When it comes to calculating a fair share, the figures are as much to do with ideology as maths
‘Taxing times for the squeezed middle class,” declared RTE’s Prime Time last Tuesday, “but are they paying more than their fair share?”
The focus of the item was a report published by the Irish Tax Institute, which had also featured prominently on an RTÉ news report that evening. The report was treated as if it were an objective mathematical analysis – but the Irish Tax Institute is effectively a lobby group for low ...
