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Matt Cooper: It’s not practical politics to make people pay over half their extra earnings in tax

The surpluses raise legitimate questions as to how long the goverment can maintain the ‘temporary’ USC when it is taking in more money in taxes than it needs to spend

Campaign slogan: Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the launch of Fine Gael’s General Election manifesto at Custom House Quay, Dublin in 2016