Aidan Regan: Fiscal deficit is not a concern, but we must widen the tax base
What should matter to us most of all is the reliability of the revenue stream that funds the state
When I tell my students that we’re going to talk a lot about taxation in my courses on political economy in UCD, there’s usually a very loud collective groan. They imagine taxation to be a dull, technical affair, rather than a lively political one.
But then I remind them that taxation is the foundation of politics – who pays for what, when and how? In fact, I would argue that if we want to understand ...
