Stephen Kinsella: Making promises they can’t keep
Government parties are at it again – making spending pledges on uncertain growth
All electoral promises are fictions a party writes from a need to appeal to the classes most likely to vote for it. The electorate hates the universal social charge, because it is such a good tax. So parties are queuing up to kill it.
Even Ibec’s excellent idea to turn the USC into a pension pot has seemingly fallen on deaf ears. Yet Ireland is not a high tax economy overall; it is ...
